Accession number
PML 145850.159
Creator
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, etcher.
Published
[London : s.n., 1666
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
A satire on the relationship of the European powers during the Second Anglo-Dutch War; published as a frontispiece to Charles Molloy's Hollands ingratitude, or, A serious expostulation with the Dutch (London : Printed by T[homas]. J[ohnson]. for Fr[ancis]. K[irkman]., 1666); also appears at the head of a related broadside issued by Kirkman entitled "Holland's representation, or, The Dutch-mans looking glass" (London : Francis Kirkman, 1666).
Hodnett attributes the design to Francis Barlow.
Mounted as item 159 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).
A satire on the relationship of the European powers during the Second Anglo-Dutch War; published as a frontispiece to Charles Molloy's Hollands ingratitude, or, A serious expostulation with the Dutch (London : Printed by T[homas]. J[ohnson]. for Fr[ancis]. K[irkman]., 1666); also appears at the head of a related broadside issued by Kirkman entitled "Holland's representation, or, The Dutch-mans looking glass" (London : Francis Kirkman, 1666).
Hodnett attributes the design to Francis Barlow.
Mounted as item 159 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 print : etching ; image: 149 x 216 mm; plate mark: 154 x 223 mm; sheet: 176 x 236 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Charles II, on the right, feeding a cow, identified as the Netherlands, with hay; the King of Denmark holds her by the horns; the King of Spain is seated on her back; the Bishop of Munster rests his hands on her rump; the King of France (or James, Duke of York, according to Stephens) holds her tail in one hand and a whip in the other, as the cow defecates into the French crown; an unidentified man (perhaps the young Prince William of Orange, later William III) with his back to the viewer sucks the cow's udder.
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