Allegory of Armed Neutrality, 1780, Allegorical representation of the Covenant of Armed Neutrality, ca. 1780. The Netherlands, as Freedom and Prudence, complains to Justice about the plundering of its ships at sea by England. This also includes personifications of other virtues. On the right the British Virgin with Thoughtlessness and Predation and Gratitude with a Russian imperial crown. In the sky from the clouds the armed arm of Armed Neutrality carrying the weapons of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and the Republic. On the sheet below the plate the explanation of the numbers 1-14 and a verse

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