Les cruautez du Duc d'Albe dans les Pais-bas, l'an 1567
Erschrecklicke grausamkeiten durch Duc d'Alba in die Niederländen, A. 1567
An engraving depicting the torture of Anabaptists in the Netherlands under the rule of the Duke of Alba. The image shows torturers afixing vises to the tongues of two men and heating them with iron (left and right) and a number of individuals being burned at the stake (background).
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Leiden (Netherlands)
French
German
Martyrs
Martyrdom
Death
Burning (Execution)
Torture
Vises
Tongue
Anabaptists
Persecution
Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, duque de, 1507-1582
Netherlands
Seventeenth century
1 image
Still image
engravings (prints)
Theatre des martyrs = Schau-Buhne der Martyrer : depuis la mort J. Christ jusqu' à present : représenté en tres belles tailles-douces
1698 LUIK
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