Allegory of the 100-Year Anniversary of Dutch Freedom, 1648-1748, Simon Fokke, 1748, The lauded personification of Peace thrones in the air with an olive branch and a caduceus. Below her, Minerva receives a lance with freedom hat from a putto. A second putto offers a book to the Vigilance in the center. On the far left, a third putto chases devilish figures with a spear into a sea of flames. At the bottom, the Town Hall on Dam Square, Amsterdam, completed in 1648, with a portrait of Jacob van Campen and a depiction of pile-driving during construction., draughtsman: Simon Fokke, (signed by

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