Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4742235
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Veraderije gesticht om den Hertoge Van Brabant en den
Artist
Year
1616
Print run
Signed
Dimensions
10,9 x 17,9
Details

Engraving with various views of Bruges. Top left Franciscus Basa who commits suicide in his dungeon, in the middle and bottom right his body is being dragged through the streets and at the top right he is quartered. Basa, together with Nicolas Salcedo, planned an assassination attempt on William of Orange and the Duke of Anjou. This was discovered and the Basa committed suicide in his dungeon in 1582. Numbered 141. With caption in French and Dutch. Copper engraving, published in the famous book by Willem Baudartius (1565-1640) 'Les Guerres De Nassau, (...)', Amsterdam, Michel Colin de Thovoyon, 1616.

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