Cartoon showing the execution of princely supporters, 1784, Cartoon in which princely supporters are tortured and executed. Kaat Mossel tied to a cross with orange ribbons to be devoured ('vomited') by the executioner. The Leiden baker Adriaan Trago is already crushed on a wheel and the Leiden chief admiral Brender à Brandis is hanging on the gallows. A similar fate awaits the preacher Petrus Hofstede and the Duke of Brunswick. Prince Willem V watches on the left under a tree but does not dare to speak. The print comes with a text sheet with an explanation of the scene in two columns., print

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