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Den onderganck des roomschen arents door den noordschen leeuw : af-ghebeeldt in verscheyden konstige figuren, met sin-rijcke verklaringhen der selver, beydes in en buyten rijm ... met een verhael van den doodt des koninghs

Hulsius, Bartholomeus, 1601-1642, Passe, Crispijn van de, d. 1670 · 1642 · t'Amsterdam : Door Crispin vande Pas · 33 pictures

A 1642 Dutch emblem book published in Amsterdam by Crispijn van de Passe, with text by Bartholomeus Hulsius, celebrating the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf and the Thirty Years' War for a Dutch Protestant readership. Its pictures are small engraved scenes with dense hatching, showing crowds, processions, and figures gesturing toward distant battles and burning towns, offering a designer compact models of crowd composition and dramatic narrative staging.

Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1594-1632 · Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

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