The cruelty of the bull, 1647; Stiers Wreetheydt, Plaight aen Meester Ende Vrou. And wonderlijck consists of redeming their Hunnes Kindts, hurried to Sardam. Illustration of the events known as the cruelty of the bull, 1647. De Boer and his pregnant wife that were attacked by a bull on 29 August 1647 in Zaandam. The print shows in the foreground how the man is attacked by the bull. To the right can be seen how the woman is taken to the horns in which the child is hurled out of the abdomen and how the bull is finally finished. Under the show in four columns a description of the events, four different verses about the protagonists and a statement by Mr. Yreton, one of the doctors involved.