[ARMINIAENSCHE SLANGE].

Clare Af-beeldinghe, ofte Effigien, der voornaemste Conspirateurs, staende op het Lichaem vande Hoofdeloose Arminiaensche Slange. Waer in vertoont word hoe den Orangien Boom, mitsgaders Religie ende Justitie [in spijt van 't Bedrogh, en den vervallen Boom] door de strael Gods, beschermt word. Amsterdam, Ian Amelissz, 1623. Large engraving (29.5 x 40 cm) with letterpress poem in 3 columns underneath. Pasted on cardboard.

      . Muller, Historieplaten 1479. Cartoon of the failed conspiracy against Prince Maurits of Orange in 1623. In revenge for the execution of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt in 1619, two of his sons, Reynier and Willem, conspired to assassinate Prince Maurits. They were helped by other prominent members of Dutch society who had a political, religious or personal grudge against the Prince. However, the seamen who had been hired to execute the plan told the authorities about the plot. The conspirators were arrested and executed.The portraits of the conspirators, who were all Arminians, are displayed on a decapitated snake. The body of the dead snake encircles two trees, the cut down tree of Arminianism with Deceit cleaving to its trunk, and the Orange tree flanked by Religion and Justice and protected by divine light. At the left on the picture, there are the gallows with the heads of the conspirators on spears. Below the illustration there is a poem in three columns..