The Blind Shepherds

Landscape in which allegorical figures and pictorial elements together form a rebus. On the left, a fireplace with the year 1579, next to it two blind shepherds, in the sky God with the tablets of the law. In the center, two bears, a want on a broken door, a fool who is father, and on the right two wolves shearing sheep. In the background, the population is terrorized. The print is an attack on the inability of the country's government to protect its inhabitants. In the caption, the solution of the rebus in three verses of two lines each in Dutch, French, and German. Numbered bottom right and left: 4 / IV.