Accession number
PML 145850.53
Creator
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.
Published
[Netherlands : s.n., ca, 1674]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
With etching attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe, the image measuring 245 x 350 mm
An illustrated Dutch broadside satirising attempts to negotiate peace in Europe in 1674 in which the events of the Franco-Dutch war of 1672-1678 are metaphorically compared to chaos in an alchemist's laboratory.
With text printed in three columns; printed on two separate sheets pasted together, with the etching on upper sheet and letterpress on lower sheet.
"Other states are as follows: the present state; the second state, 1689, entitled "Het Groote Stookhuis"; a third (not in BM), 1706, entitled, "T Forneys des Oorlogs"; see Wolfgang Gillessen (ed), Krieg der Bilder, exh. cat. Berlin, 1997, B.XIV.1 (pp.194-195). Stephens erroneously refers to the present state as a later one [see BM Satires 1154]."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Mounted as item 53 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
With etching attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe, the image measuring 245 x 350 mm
An illustrated Dutch broadside satirising attempts to negotiate peace in Europe in 1674 in which the events of the Franco-Dutch war of 1672-1678 are metaphorically compared to chaos in an alchemist's laboratory.
With text printed in three columns; printed on two separate sheets pasted together, with the etching on upper sheet and letterpress on lower sheet.
"Other states are as follows: the present state; the second state, 1689, entitled "Het Groote Stookhuis"; a third (not in BM), 1706, entitled, "T Forneys des Oorlogs"; see Wolfgang Gillessen (ed), Krieg der Bilder, exh. cat. Berlin, 1997, B.XIV.1 (pp.194-195). Stephens erroneously refers to the present state as a later one [see BM Satires 1154]."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Mounted as item 53 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (etching) ; 55 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A broadside satirising the contradictory interests that arose during the Dutch-French War by likening the events of the war to ingredients being used in a chaotic alchemist's workshop, causing unintended results, with a satire on the Bishop of Strasbourg depicting him as a devil in form of Dr. Faustus; with an etching with four scenes, the top showing an alchemist's laboratory with three kilns operated by various alchemists, burning and destroying numerous objects representing various events and places affected by the War, on the left the French kiln, in the center the Cologne kiln, and on the right a kiln operated by William of Orange, with the Bishop of Münster entering holding his nose at far right; at the bottom are three scenes with the Bishop of Strasbourg, appearing in the panel left as a devil and causing confusion among soldiers, in the center sitting in his chamber, being approached by the devil in from of a figure half cock and half pig, and on the right wearing black robes, scaring guards; lettered directly above center panel: In Faustus Faustus Van Straetsburg. With engraved title, inscriptions, and numbering 1-30, and letterpress title and explanatory text.
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