Herliberger, David, Amsterdam, Picart, Bernard, L'alliance & la concorde des Suisses, Allegory of the alliance and peace with Switzerland, verso lower left - stamped, Hercules offers his club to the personification of the Republic of Switzerland. She is surrounded by personifications of the virtues: Prudence, Concord, Liberty, Wisdom and Fortuna. On the right Minerva chasing away harpies. On the right in the background the Swiss crossbowman William Tell who was ordered to shoot an apple from his son's head with his bow after he refused to salute the hat that governor Gessler had placed on a stake in the village square as a symbol of the ruling Habsburg. The representation is framed by two pillars on which a list of Swiss cities and a garland with coats of arms. In the margin a three-line caption in French., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 267 mm, width 332 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1727 - 1727, second quarter 18th