Prognostication of the end of the world, ca.1663, As it was in the Days of Noel, as it will be in the future of Man: by many portents of Heaven (...) (title on object), Allegorical sheet with the prognostication of the end of the world, ca. 1663. At the top a scene in which the secular and spiritual princes on the left throw dice over the fate of the citizen and farmer. On the right, civil life and the world are in turmoil. In the background wars on land and sea, in the sky the eight gods of the planets and the comet of 1628. In the center the philosophers Democritus and Heraclites near a globe under a fool's cap. Below is a sheet pasted with pilasters on either side and small scenes marked A-Y at the bottom from the story of Noah and the Flood and celestial phenomena from the past years 1660-1663; in the middle the explanatory texts., print, print maker: Crispijn van de Passe (II), (attributed to), Amsterdam, 1644 - 1645 and/or 1663 - 1664, paper, engraving, letterpress printing, height, 575 mm × width, 375 mm
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