Sheet with five medals in honor of the De Witt brothers, 1672

Sheet with the obverse and reverse of five medals made in honor of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt, after their death on 20 August 1672. The sheet is composed of three pieces of paper glued together. On the left are two medals, on the right three. The first medal shows the brothers in profile facing each other; on the reverse a beast with many heads symbolizes the people that mutilated the bodies. On the obverse of the second medal a ruler in his triumphal chariot drawn by kings with above a scene of the mutilation of the bodies. On the reverse a verse of six lines signed J.V.R. The third medal shows the two brothers in profile, one behind the other; on the reverse two ships sinking at sea. The fourth medal has the same portraits and a verse of eight lines. The fifth medal also has the same portraits and an emblem of the bodies on the seesaw, crowned by a winged hourglass and flanked by two mourning putti. The first four medals are depicted in Van Loon, vol. III, p.