Accession number
PML 145850.25
Published
[London : Printed by R.I. for T. Hinde, and N. Brooke, and are to be sold at their shops at the black Bull and Angel in Corn-hill neare the Royal Exchange, 1652]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Broadside satirising the relationship between England and the Netherlands at the time of the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654).
"This sheet was copied in Holland (BM Satires 838). Malcolm Jones records that a later state, dated 1679, with a new title 'A nest of plots discovered' and accompanied by different verses, is in the Sutherland Clarendon."--British Museum catalog online.
Continuation of title: "or, a list of XXVII barbarous and bloody cruelties and murthers, massacres and base treacheries of the Hollanders against England and English men: with the particulars of the noble usages of England to them in their necessities, which might have taught them better manners; and would have engaged some savage nations to have given a better return from bare principles of nature."
Library's copy imperfect; cropped to image with loss of title, imprint, and broadside text. Lack of accompanying text and the existence of additional recorded impressions of this print issued with different text and title raise the possibility that this print may represent a later or earlier publication than that described here.
"This sheet was copied in Holland (BM Satires 838). Malcolm Jones records that a later state, dated 1679, with a new title 'A nest of plots discovered' and accompanied by different verses, is in the Sutherland Clarendon."--British Museum catalog online.
Continuation of title: "or, a list of XXVII barbarous and bloody cruelties and murthers, massacres and base treacheries of the Hollanders against England and English men: with the particulars of the noble usages of England to them in their necessities, which might have taught them better manners; and would have engaged some savage nations to have given a better return from bare principles of nature."
Library's copy imperfect; cropped to image with loss of title, imprint, and broadside text. Lack of accompanying text and the existence of additional recorded impressions of this print issued with different text and title raise the possibility that this print may represent a later or earlier publication than that described here.
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) : ill. (engraving) ; 35 x 44 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
With explanatory notes in lower margin in a 16th century hand, identifying the principal subject of the print as James I.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows, on the left, the Dutch ambassador, Paulus van der Perre; Time presents the naked female figure of Truth emerging from an open grave and representing Isaac Dorislaus, murdered in 1649 at the Hague by English royalists. Details are identified by a key: A. a man nailed across a door and being tortured and another about to be decapitated illustrating atrocities at Amboyna (1622); B. a council held in a pavilion, again in reference the war in the East Indies; C. a hyena; D. a crocodile; E. a chair with a pierced seat beneath which are cracked eggs; F. a fox with bags of gold; G. a chameleon; H. a scene, at top right, showing soldiers entering a building which refers to the murder of Dorislaus; I., the Dutch ambassador, from whose left wrist hang, K, three masks representing three Anglo-Dutch treaties (1613, 1615, 1619); L., held in the ambassador's right hand, a sun with a lion's paw; M. a fleet of ships representing the attack of Admiral von Tromp at the Battle of the Downs in 1652 (this detail, and B., as well as a ray of light emerging from eye and name of God, are taken from Samuel Ward's "Double Deliverance"; N. Time removing a veil ; O. Truth, the ghost of Dorislaus, unveiled by Time, her lips sealed with a padlock in the form of a heart, holding the sun in her right hand and a martyr's palm in her left. Engraved Latin and English inscriptions, key A-O, and English letterpress title, legend, and a list in four columns of 27 cruelties committed by the Dutch against the English.
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