Allegory of the deceptive peace proposals in 1598, 1598 print Allegorical show against the peace proposals in 1598. In the central performance the personification of the Provintien dominated, with Janushoofd in Monnikspij with olive branch standing for the Dutchman with the Dutch Lion. On the left, Anneken van den Hove is buried alive in Brussels (1597), on the right the Netherlands Lion with a few sheep in the Dutch garden. In the background the attacks on Prince Maurits in 1594 by Michien Renichon or Pierre du Four and in 1598 by Pieter Panne. At the top of separate cartouches with small sce
Allegory of the deceptive peace proposals in 1598, 1598 print Allegorical show against the peace proposals in 1598. In the central performance the personification of the Provintien dominated, with Janushoofd in Monnikspij with olive branch standing for the Dutchman with the Dutch Lion. On the left, Anneken van den Hove is buried alive in Brussels (1597), on the right the Netherlands Lion with a few sheep in the Dutch garden. In the background the attacks on Prince Maurits in 1594 by Michien Renichon or Pierre du Four and in 1598 by Pieter Panne. At the top of separate cartouches with small scenes with: the tyranny under the Duke of Alva, a mouse nibbles the ropes with which the Dutch lion is bound to the column of the Inquisition, the free Dutch lion no longer wants a collar, the murder of Willem van Orange in 1584 and the false peace proposals to Queen Elizabeth I with the Spanish Armada of 1588 in the background. In the print, a copy of the corresponding text took over from another copy, 4 columns in Dutch. Northern Netherlands paper. ink etching / pen peace negotiations
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