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An engraving of a panelled room where men in cloaks and hats seize others and push them towards an open window
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The defenestration

Two governors and a secretary are thrown from a window of Prague Castle, from the great chronicle Theatrum Europaeum.

Made by
Matthäus Merian the Elder (publisher)
Made
1630s
Technique
Engraving
Credit
Public domain.

Printed in Frankfurt in the Theatrum Europaeum, a chronicle of the war that was still going on when its first volumes appeared. The engraver shows the room in the castle and the struggle at the window; the moat far below is left to the imagination.

An engraving of a panelled room where men in cloaks and hats seize others and push them towards an open window

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