Eexcutie voor de Waag te Amsterdam, Vrijdag's den 28te Junij Ao. 1748

Engraving by Fokke and A. Fokke Simonsz, 1777, after Fokke; soldiers firing on fleeing civilians following execution of 2 persons, a man and a woman, seen hanging from window of weighing-house, two women victims in left foreground. Engraving by Fokke and A. Fokke Simonsz, 1777, after Fokke; soldiers firing on fleeing civilians following execution of 2 persons, a man and a woman, seen hanging from window of weighing-house, two women victims in left foreground. Depicts an execution at The Waag, a 15th-century building on Nieuwmarkt Square in Amsterdam, of Piet van Dort and Mat van den Nieuwendijk, two participants in the Pachtersoproer, a Dutch rebellion over economic conditions in the spring of 1748 London, Spencer, 1953.
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