Title, date, and lettering from impression of finished state in the British Museum; completed state includes engraved title and 12 lines of verse by Kasteleijn in two columns below image.
Library's copy is an early, unfinished etched state of the print, closely trimmed to image and lacking all lettering and caption text.
Etching by Brasser after Pfeiffer illustrating a broadside with an allegory on the Dutch Patriot determination to defend republican ideas, protecting the Netherlands from the Orangists and other evil forces; showing in the background a large formation of soldiers next to a pyramid which is decorated with the seven coats-of-arms of the United Provinces, in the central right middleground the Dutch Lion and a group of soldiers forcing various people, animals, and allegorical figures away, on the left William V in a suit of armour holding two wreaths and stepping on a shield and arms, in the left foreground a group of Patriot soldiers erecting a long lance surmounted with a freedom hat. Cf. British Museum online catalog.