The corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging on the gallows at Gevangenpoort in The Hague, Netherlands. The brothers, republicans, were lynched by supporters of William of Orange on August 20, 1672. After a 17th century etching by Gaspar Bouttats.

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