Accession number
PML 145850.21
Creator
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.
Published
[Netherlands : s.n., 1674]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Dutch broadside on the abduction of Prince Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg in Cologne on 16 February 1674, with an etching by Romeyn de Hooghe at head and descriptive and explanatory letterpress text printed below in two columns.
See British Museum catalog and Stephens for a detailed explication of this broadside image and the accompanying text.
Mounted as item 21 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).
Library's copy imperfect; cropped to size of image, with loss of descriptive text on lower portion of broadside sheet.
Dutch broadside on the abduction of Prince Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg in Cologne on 16 February 1674, with an etching by Romeyn de Hooghe at head and descriptive and explanatory letterpress text printed below in two columns.
See British Museum catalog and Stephens for a detailed explication of this broadside image and the accompanying text.
Mounted as item 21 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).
Library's copy imperfect; cropped to size of image, with loss of descriptive text on lower portion of broadside sheet.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 245 x 348 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the attack on Prince Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg's coach by night; at the top of the print is shown a banner with an allegorical depiction of Louis XIV's ambitions for political domination shown as a barrel being constructed around a globe.
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