
Count William Permitting Beheading, Plate 7 from Thrones of Justice
An engraved print showing a richly dressed seated man in a canopied chamber, with armed guards and a kneeling figure at lower center beside a block. Columns, a tented drapery, and an arched doorway frame the scene. Two lines of Latin verse appear beneath the image.
- Artist
- Willem van Swanenburgh
- Date
- 1606
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1303 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1606).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds