print
- Museum number
- G,11.204
- Description
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The arrest and murder of the alleged traitors Jan de Witt and Cornelis de Witt in The Hague on 20 August 1672; illustrating on the left the capture, on the right the killing of the brothers, and in the centre the exhibition and opening of their bodies at the gallows; in top corners portrait of the brothers, in laurel frames with animal heads at base.
Etching
- Production date
- 1673 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres
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Width: 241 millimetres (cut to image)
- Curator's comments
- For broadsides on the same subject, see Y,1.29, BM 1871,1209.4835, 1885,1114.166, and BM S.5135.
For a note on Crowle's extra-illustrated Pennant see G,1.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Assassination of Jan and Cornelis de Witt 1672 (20 August)
- Acquisition date
- 1811
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- G,11.204