On the left a view of a wheelbarrow with the heads of the four dismissed colonels

On the left a view of a wheelbarrow with the heads of the four dismissed colonels. From the clouds a hand crowns the bust of Hendrik Hooft Danielsz. On the sheet below the plate a verse of fourteen lines. Northern Netherlands, The Dutch Garden Cleansed of Weeds, Cartoon on the Purification of the Councils of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 1787, verso - stamped, Patriot cartoon on the purification of the councils of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 1787. In front of a walled garden, two militiamen overturn their wheelbarrows containing the severed heads of the nine deposed Amsterdam councilors and the seven Rotterdam councilors. In the background on the right, the Dutch Freedom is watering the her garden, print, engraving, cartoon, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 375 mm, width 235 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1787 - 1787, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, letterpress. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)