Inscription above Central Picture.
‘True representation of the executions at Prague. How by the most gracious order and command of his Roman Imperial Majesty the former Bohemian Directors, Counts, Lords, Knights and men of the Estate of the citizens were, on Saturday, the 9th of June of this year 1621, condemned in the royal castle of the Hradcany, and then, on Monday, June 21, punished and executed on the market-place of the old town.’
Inscription under Central Picture.
‘This design shows clearly how the 24 men were decapitated one after the other, and how three others were then hanged,’
Inscription under Upper Engraving Right Side.
‘Here you see the twelve heads exposed on the bridge tower of Prague.’
Inscription under Lower Engraving Right Side.
‘How three men are whipped with rods, while the tongue of one is nailed to the gallows.’
