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Allegory on the French invasion of the Netherlands in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampjaar" class="extiw" title="en:Rampjaar">Rampjaar</a> of 1672. A smiling young man shows a drawing or a print to a sitting man wearing a white cap. On it the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_rooster" class="extiw" title="en:Gallic rooster">Gallic rooster</a> sits over the Dutch Garden in which the Dutch Lion lays defeated. The sword is broken, the arrows are scattered and the fence has been forced open. At the bottom of the sheet some musical notes.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Johannes_van_Wijckersloot" class="extiw" title="w:en:Johannes van Wijckersloot"><span title="Dutch painter">Johannes van Wijckersloot</span></a>
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1672<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1672-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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