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Execution of the Anabaptists on the scaffold at the Dam, 1535
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Execution of the Anabaptists on the scaffold at the Dam, 1535

anonymous · 1612 - 1614 · engraving; paper

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

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Torture and execution of the Anabaptists on the scaffold in front of the old town hall on the Dam, 28 July 1535. Judges look out from the windows of the town hall; a large crowd on the Dam. Below the scaffold, the mutilated bodies of those already executed. Print cut from the book. With a two-line verse below the image.

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printhistorieprentDam (Amsterdam)
Credit lineTerechtstelling van de wederdopers op het schavot op de Dam, 1535. 1612 - 1614. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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