Tyranny of Alva, ca. 1569; Delineatio Deplorati Status Belgium Sub Immensa Tirannide Albani Ducis, Ferdinandi a Toledo; Imagehe van den Ellendijghen Staet der Nederlanden, under the Crude Tijrannije van den Hertoghe van Alba. Allegory on the tyranny of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands, ca. 1569. Links Alva on his throne in a palace, assisted by Granvelle (with bellows) and members of the blood council, he is crowned by the devil. For him, chained the 17 personifications from the counties of the Netherlands, to the right the flowed members of the States General. A window in the middle gives
Tyranny of Alva, ca. 1569; Delineatio Deplorati Status Belgium Sub Immensa Tirannide Albani Ducis, Ferdinandi a Toledo; Imagehe van den Ellendijghen Staet der Nederlanden, under the Crude Tijrannije van den Hertoghe van Alba. Allegory on the tyranny of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands, ca. 1569. Links Alva on his throne in a palace, assisted by Granvelle (with bellows) and members of the blood council, he is crowned by the devil. For him, chained the 17 personifications from the counties of the Netherlands, to the right the flowed members of the States General. A window in the middle gives a view of Margaretha van Parma who vist to riches in a blood pond, behind it the decapitation of Egmond and Horne in Brussels in 1568. Left and right scenes of torture and executions. In the caption a verse of 4 columns of 4 lines each and the legend A-O in Dutch. Incomplete specimen without the title and parts of the caption.
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