Allegory on the liberation of the Netherlands, 1813; Dutch BeFreyung / Das Erwachen des Löwen. Allegory on the liberation of the Netherlands and the fall of the French in 1813. The unleashed Dutch lion with arrows bundle in the claw trambles a yoke, field sign and buoys and drives away the French rooster. On the leaf under the plate a verse in three couplets in German.

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