Patience in adversity; Allegories about poverty and wealth. On the foreground on the left the personification of patience (patientia) surrounded by weaponry. She holds the cross and the Lamb of God is sitting on her lap. Next to her is a Bible. She has directed her eyes to heaven, to the tetragram of God. On the right in the foreground poverty (pauper bag). He is dressed as a crippled beggar and hunts kwajongens away with his staff. In the background the horrors of the Eighty Years' War. On the left the Spanish Furie of 1576, when Antwerp was looted by Spanish soldiers and the town hall was fi

Patience in adversity; Allegories about poverty and wealth. On the foreground on the left the personification of patience (patientia) surrounded by weaponry. She holds the cross and the Lamb of God is sitting on her lap. Next to her is a Bible. She has directed her eyes to heaven, to the tetragram of God. On the right in the foreground poverty (pauper bag). He is dressed as a crippled beggar and hunts kwajongens away with his staff. In the background the horrors of the Eighty Years' War. On the left the Spanish Furie of 1576, when Antwerp was looted by Spanish soldiers and the town hall was fired. On the right the robberies of Spanish troops on the Brabant countryside. The image can be interpreted as a request to be steady in the (Protestant) faith and patiently wait the time despite the setbacks and poverty that the war triggers. The print has a Latin, French and Dutch caption in verses. The verses condemn poverty and traces to troll and labor. An exception is made for poverty at the time of war.

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