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Fragment of an allegory of the tyranny of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_3rd_Duke_of_Alba" class="extiw" title="en:Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba">Duke of Alba</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Countries" class="extiw" title="en:Low Countries">Netherlands</a>. The left part of the painting showing Alba sitting on his throne is missing. In the middle the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Provinces" class="extiw" title="en:Seventeen Provinces">Seventeen Provinces</a> with their crests are kneeling down, while being chained in captivity. To the left members of Alba's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Troubles" class="extiw" title="en:Council of Troubles">Council of Troubles</a>. To the left the dumbfounded members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_General_of_the_Netherlands" class="extiw" title="en:States General of the Netherlands">States General of the Netherlands</a>. Bottom right a group of spectators. In the background left the decapitation of the counts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamoral,_Count_of_Egmont" class="extiw" title="en:Lamoral, Count of Egmont">Egmont</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_de_Montmorency,_Count_of_Horn" class="extiw" title="en:Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn">Horn</a> in May 1568 is shown, as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Parma" class="extiw" title="en:Margaret of Parma">Duchess of Parma</a> fishing in a pond. In the background right bodies are being burnt and hung from gallows. Based on a print by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Jacobsz_Delff" class="extiw" title="en:Willem Jacobsz Delff">Willem Jacobsz. Delff</a> dated 1622.</div>
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<span lang="en">Anonymous</span><span style="display:none">Unknown author</span></div>
between circa 1622 and circa 1630 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1622-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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