The Tragic Oppression of the Netherlands, 1569

Allegory on the tyranny of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands, 1569. On the left the Duke of Alva sits on his throne with Granvelle (with bellows) and the devil, behind the duke stand members of the Council of Blood, including Vargas and Del Rio. Before Alva kneel chained the 17 personifications of the provinces of the Netherlands, on the right the silenced members of the States General. Above her Margaret of Parma fishes for riches in a blood pond, behind that the beheading of Egmond and Horne and others in Brussels in 1568. In the background executions, on the left scenes of tortures. With a caption of four columns in French.