Illustration to a poem by Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) depicting a revolution with barricade in a city street; foreground, dead bodies, falling bodies and planks of wood; middleground, revolutionaries fighting from a platform / barricade including, corpses, a group of men firing rifles, a man throwing a barrel?, a man cowering and, in the centre, a man about to use a gun as a club and a bourgeois revolutionary wearing a jacket and a top hat; background, tall buildings on either side of the road with chimney stacks, windows, corpses and smoke and fire
