Allegorical representation against the peace proposals of Father Jan Neyen in 1607
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Allegorical representation against the peace proposals of Father Jan Neyen in 1607. In the central scene, Jan Neyen dressed in a monk's habit with an olive branch and a cross, and the tail of a scorpion, stands before the Dutchman with a spear near three cheese wheels. On the left and right, small scenes with two-line verses in German. Top: Margaretha of Parma chained to the pillar of the Inquisition by the Dutch Lion (1566); bottom: false peace proposals made by papal envoys to the Dutch Lion in the Dutch Garden. Top right: Prince Maurice among the murderers Michiel Renichon and Pierre du Four (1594); bottom: Maurice and Pieter Panne (1598) and a scene in which Anneken van den Hove is buried alive in Brussels (1597). Attached below the print is a text sheet with Neyen's proposal and the Dutchman's reply on behalf of all the Geuzen, in five columns in German and Latin.
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