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Title print for Pieter Bor's Dutch Wars, 1621
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Upper half of the title print for the publication of Pieter Bor, Nederlantsche Oorloghen from 1621. Personification of the Spanish Inquisition with snake hair has taken the place of Justice who sleeps bound, on the left Liberty is driven away and Truth is stabbed. On the right Spanish soldiers plunder the money chest with privileges. In the background executions. At the top in a medallion the portraits of Philip II and Charles V. At the bottom a motto of 2 lines in Dutch. The lower half of the print with the title cut off.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTitelprent voor Nederlantsche Oorloghen van Pieter Bor, 1621. 1619 - 1621. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.