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Het committè van Financie
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image: 25.2 x 20.9 cm; plate: 2703 x 21.8 cm; sheet: 29 x 23.4 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2905
Published:
[1796]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 4.
Plate number 4 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Summary:
Four members of the committee surround a treasure-chest, dismayed to find it empty of ducats and occupied by a grinning demon who points derisively at one of them, the Secretary (wearing a bonnet-rouge with a pen in it) who holds upside down an empty bag inscribed 'ils ont emigrè'. One of them, his back to the chest, takes from a Jew (left) wearing a fur cap a dish on which a little demon is excreting coins. On the right a large cupboard falls forward shooting the huge packages it contains, inscribed 'Recepissen' and 'Assignats', on to the backs of two of the committee.
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