Shooting to fathers corpse. The print shows a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (Chapter 15), a Latin collection stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king are fighting for the succession. A judge decides on the case by binding the deceased prince to a tree. The son closest to his father's heart is won and will be the throne successor. The print shows an episode from this story. The oldest son has already shot (left). The deceased king, tied to a tree, has the arrow in his lower body. While the rest of the spectators argue about the outcome of the game, the second

Shooting to fathers corpse. The print shows a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (Chapter 15), a Latin collection stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king are fighting for the succession. A judge decides on the case by binding the deceased prince to a tree. The son closest to his father's heart is won and will be the throne successor. The print shows an episode from this story. The oldest son has already shot (left). The deceased king, tied to a tree, has the arrow in his lower body. While the rest of the spectators argue about the outcome of the game, the second son refuses to shoot. He explains to the judge (the man with his one leg on a bench) that he does not want to commit any corpse. The judge shouts him to a new king. At the bottom of the print on the left a cartouche with the story of the 'Gesta Romanorum' in Dutch fresh form.

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