Art Institute of Chicago

An album of Dutch political prints and pamphlets dealing with Prince Maurits of Orange and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Claes Jansz. Visscher

Date

c. 1610-1650

Medium

Book of 40 prints, portraits and pamphlets, bound in cream vellum

Culture

Netherlands

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Gilles van Ledenberg was a Dutch politician who aligned himself with statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. In 1618, following a dispute with Prince Maurits of Orange about the Dutch Reformed Church and the conflict with Spain, Ledenberg and Oldenbarnevelt were arrested and tried for treason. Fearful his conviction would bankrupt his family, Ledenberg committed suicide in prison. His trial proceeded, however, and he was posthumously executed, his body suspended from the gallows in a coffin (as seen here). A 17th-century print collector bound this image in a volume with other prints and pamphlets about the events in which Ledenberg and Oldenbarnevelt played a role.

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