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A broadside satirising ordinary people and their aspiration to gain political power by showing the world upside-down, with animals storming the fortification of the hunters; with an etching showing a castle attacked by various groups of animals and birds, defended by hunters, in the L foreground two hunters hanged in a tree, underneath is a lion discussing with a bear, an elephant, a deer, a fox, and a hare; with engraved title and lettering A-M, and with letterpress text in three columns, the letterpress with a three-sided border of type ornaments. (Nuremberg, Fürst: 1652)
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