The Sleeping Lion, 1567, 1578 print Allegory of political situation in the Netherlands in the year 1567. All parties depicted by animals. While the Dutch Lion is sleeping, the fox and the wolf goose stuffed out of a cage. Sleeping shepherds and pleasure in the background while the cattle are stolen. With the inscription of 1 rule above the performance and in the caption De Legenda 1-6 in 3 verses of 6 lines in Dutch, French and German. Southern Netherlands paper engraving sleeping; unconsciousness

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