Accession number
PML 145850.234
Published
[France? : s.n., ca. 1673?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Satire on Franco-Dutch and Anglo-Dutch relations during the Franco-Dutch War; probably inspired by the satirical and allegorical comedy by Raymond Poisson, "La Holande [or Hollande] Malade", written in 1673.
Inserted as item 235 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).
Inserted as item 235 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 : engraving ; circular image: 238 mm; plate mark: 242 x 246 mm; sheet: 286 x 256 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Circular design in three sections, showing the dancing figure of "Madame Holande" flanked by two dancing doctors, "Medecin Anglois" and "Medecin François" (i.e. France and England); Madame Holande subject to treatment by them; a dining room scene where Dutch bourgois ("Bourgois Holandois") sit smoking and drinking.
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