Woodcut illustration to Qvincvnx, tho iest wzor Korony Polskiey ("Quincunx, or the Crown of Poland"), a political treatise by Stanisław Orzechowski published in Kraków in 1564. It is an allegorical representation of the political structure of the Kingdom of Poland.

In the middle, beneath a crucifix , a female personification of Poland is standing on the shoulders of a pope and a king kneeling below. The woman, wearing a closed crown on her free-flowing hair, is holding a small altar in her hands. Below the altar is the crowned White Eagle of the coat of arms of Poland , intertwined with the letters SA , the royal monogram of King Sigismund Augustus of Poland. The pope is dressed in pontifical vestments , wearing a papal tiara on his head and holding a straight crozier ending with a patriarchal cross in his right hand. Opposite him there is the king of Poland, wearing an armor and a closed crown, and holding a sword in his left hand. Between the two men stands an altar on top of which there is a chalice and a missal open on an illustration of the Crucifixion . The entire composition is framed by two pairs of columns supporting a canopy. Above the female figure hangs an unfurled ribbon with the inscription: Quincunx Polonia . Below, on both sides of the personification, a Latin inscription explains the sense of the image: Papae ac regis humerix nixa, cuius quodvis latus si offe[n]deris, totam regni structura[m] dissolveris ("The Quincunx of Poland rests on the shoulders of the pope and the king; if you damage one of its sides, you destroy the whole structure of the kingdom."). The words of Psalm 43 are written above the heads of the pope and the king: Et introibo ad altere Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem mea[m] ("Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy").