Allegory on the state of the world, ca. 1645

Sheet with a cut-out and pasted allegorical representation of the state of the world at the top, ca. 1645. On the left, secular and ecclesiastical princes are gambling over the fate of the citizen and peasant. On the right, bourgeois life and the world on stilts. In the background, land and sea wars, in the sky the riders of the Apocalypse and the comet of 1628. In the center, the philosophers Democritus and Heraclitus in conversation under a jester's cap with a globe. This conversation is printed at the bottom in 12 German verses and in 2 columns in Dutch.