Vignette with an Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V

In the center stands Charles V. He points to his imperial crown and touches with his other hand the kneeling person before him, probably Philip II. Beside him stands a woman with a coat of arms. Behind Charles V stands William of Orange next to a bishop and a lion with a bundle of arrows. In the front left possibly Ferdinand I with a page, who holds a weapon with an eagle. In the distance stands the personification of Faith with a cross and a banner with the Latin word for Inquisition. On the right Fortuna balances with a billowing sail on a wheel. Next to her Temperance extinguishes a burning torch with water. Below the scene hangs a banner with the second part of a Latin quote from the Pharsalia by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, a Roman poet from the first century AD. Freely translated it reads: '...the gods have imposed this limitation on human prosperity'. The scene is framed in an ornamental border.