Allegory on the deceptive peace proposals in 1598

Allegorical representation against the peace proposals in the year 1598. In the central scene, the personification of the Subjugated Provinces, with a Janus head in a monk's habit and an olive branch, stands before the Dutchman with the Dutch Lion. On the left, Anneken van den Hove is buried alive in Brussels (1597); on the right, the Dutch Lion with some sheep in the Dutch Garden. In the background, the attacks on Prince Maurice in 1594 by Michiel Renichon or Pierre du Four and in 1598 by Pieter Panne. At the top, separate cartouches with small scenes: the tyranny under the Duke of Alba, a mouse gnawing the ropes with which the Dutch Lion is bound to the pillar of the Inquisition, the free Dutch Lion no longer wants a collar, the murder of William of Orange in 1584, and false peace proposals to Queen Elizabeth I with the Spanish Armada of 1588 in the background. Attached to the print is a copy of the accompanying text taken from another copy, four columns in Dutch.