Persecution and punishment of homosexuals

Persecution and execution of homosexuals in 1730-1731 following the Utrecht homosexual affair. Allegory on the spread of crimen nefandum (sodomy) in the Netherlands, in six cartouches each depicting different sins and punishments. At the top, from left to right: 1: a woman who is half human, half serpent (Sin), in a room with a men's gathering; 2: a woman stabbing herself in the chest with a sword (Despair) with women and children behind her who are abandoned by their husbands; 3: a seated woman with her hair standing straight up (Fear), behind whom a man is being arrested. At the bottom, from left to right: 4: a woman with a grill and chained men in a prison; 5: Death as a skeleton with a pyre and scaffold with gallows behind her; 6: in front of the Amsterdam town hall, a crowd watches two men being drowned in a barrel, while on the right sits an angel with a flaming sword. Subject heading within the Atlas Amsterdam: Law.