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Felicitas beheaded with her seven sons; Jan Woutersz van Kuyk and Adriaanken Jans burned at Dordrecht, 1572
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A plate with two scenes. Above a market scene, in the foreground a man beheading one of Felicitas's sons with a sword. To the right stands the saint Felicitas between two guards. Below a scaffold on a crowded market. On the scaffold Jan Woutersz van Kuyk and Adriaan Jans are bound to wooden pillars.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFelicitas met haar zeven zonen onthoofd; Jan Woutersz van Kuyk en Adriaanken Jans te Dordrecht verbrand, 1572. 1805. Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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