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Title page: Verscheyden Wapenen
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Title page: Verscheyden Wapenen

anonymous · 1599 · letterpress printing; engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Mirror of Spanish cruelty. The peoples of the world (including original inhabitants of America) gathered under a mirror in which the cruelty of the Spaniards in Westphalia is shown. On the left the roasting of inhabitants of the village Reeck over a fire; in the middle a mother and child are stabbed; on the right the murder of the Count of den Broeck. Pamphlet of 134 pages which also includes various portraits.

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pamphlettitelpaginaprinttitle-pagetortureseeking deathNative peoples of the Americas
Credit lineTitelpagina van het pamflet: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel. Inde welcke men mach claerlick ende waerachtich sien tot wat eynde (...) het voornemen is (...) van 't Spaensche Crijchsvolck, d. 1599. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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