Warmond, Wandelaar, Jan, Vignette with allegory of the abdication of Charles V, verso middle - stamped, Charles V is standing in the middle. He points to his imperial crown and with his other hand touches the kneeling figure in front of him, probably Philip II. Next to him stands a woman with a coat of arms. Behind Charles V stands William of Orange next to a bishop and a lion with a bundle of arrows. On the left in front possibly stands Ferdinand I with a page, who holds 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 a billowing sail on a wheel. Next to her, Temperance extinguishes a burning torch with water. Below the representation 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 '...this limitation the gods have imposed on human prosperity'. The representation is set in an ornamental frame., print, prints, height 143 mm, width 188 mm, Noord-Nederland, 1690-04-14 - 1759-03-26, print maker, printmaker, 1734 - 1734, paper, papier, etching, etchings, stippelets, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Noord-Nederlands, after own design by
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