Vignette with allegory on the abdication of Charles V. In the center is Charles V. He points to his imperial crowns and with his other hand touches the person kneeling in front of him, probably Philip II. Next to him stands a woman with a coat of arms. Behind Charles V, William of Orange stands next to a bishop and a lion with a bundle of arrows. At the front left there may be Ferdinand I with a page, holding a coat of arms with an eagle. In the distance stands the personification of faith with a cross and a banner with the Latin word for Inquisition. On the right, Fortuna balances on a wheel with a billowing sail. Beside her, Temperance extinguishes a burning torch with water. Below the scene hangs a banner with the second part of a Latin quotation from the Pharsalia by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, a Roman poet from the first century AD. Loosely translated it says '...the gods have imposed this limitation on human prosperity'. The scene is contained in an ornamental frame., print maker: Jan Wandelaar, after own design by: Jan Wandelaar, Warmond, (possibly), 1734, paper, etching, engraving, height 142 mm × width 188 mm, print
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