Voorzijde: Naar elkaar toegewende borstbeelden van de gebroeders. IOHANNES DE WITT. NAT. A. 1625. CORNELIVS. DE. WITT. NAT. A. 1623, In tulpenrand: SCELERIS : QVE PVRVS / INTEGER VITÆ. Op banderol: HIC ARMIS / MAXIMVS / ILLE TOGA
Keerzijde: Een Chimaera (veelkoppig monster; voorstellende het 'gepeupel') verscheurt de lijken van de gebroeders. NUNC REDEUNT ANIMIS INGENITA CONSULIS ACTA ET FORMIDATI SCEPTRIS ORACLA MINISTRI. In afsnede: NOBILE PAR FRATRVM SÆVO EVROR ORE TRVCIDAT. XX AVGVSTI.
Het betreft hier de variant zonder naam van de medailleur (op de voorzijde) en met een andere tekening van de borstbeelden.
Uiterst zeldzaam origineel geslagen exemplaar in witmetaal.
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"Murder of the de Witt Brothers" white-metal Medal ND (1672) MS63 PCGS, Van Loon-III-87.1 (French ed. 81.1), Saunders/Vanhoudt 1672.41. By P. Avry (without signature). Plain edge. Facing busts. IOHANNES DE WITT. NAT. A. 1625 - CORNELIVS DE WITT. NAT. A. 1623. Scroll below: HIC ARMIS MAXIMVS ILLE TOGA // The corpses of the two brothers shredded to pieces by a monster representing the furious mob of people. NUNC REDEUNTANIMIS INGENTIA CONSULIS ACTA ET FORMIDATI SCEPTRIS ORACLA MINISTRI; in exergue NOBILE PAR FRATERVM SAEVO FVROR ORE TRVCIDAT. XX AVCVSTI.
On August 20, 1672, Johan de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, and his brother Cornelis were murdered by a mob in The Hague near the Gevangenpoort, where Cornelis had been imprisoned on false charges of treason. Amidst the chaos of the "Rampjaar" (Disaster Year), in which the Dutch Republic faced simultaneous invasions by France, England, and others, the brothers were scapegoated for military failures and the decline of the republic's defense. Their deaths, encouraged by Orangist factions loyal to William of Orange, marked the collapse of the Dutch republican regime and the resurgence of monarchical power.
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