Allegorical victory of the Catholic Church over the Ottoman Empire., Nieuw-Jaers Ghift. 1686 or Ketterschen Alcoran (title on object), The prophet Mohammed, chained to the devil, appears before a group of Ottomans who are chaining and circumcising the Hungarian leader Imre Thököly. Above their heads the allegorical personifications of all heresies flee from the light of the Roman Catholic Church. On the left of the print, Pope Innocent The Pope holds a shield with the image of the German Emperor Leopold I. Turkish subjects kneel next to the Pope

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