Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Het committè van Rekening

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Het committè van Rekening

Published

[1796]

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image: 25.7 x 20.9 cm; plate: 27.2 x 22 cm; sheet: 29.5 x 23.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2907
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 5.
Plate number 5 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Two French commissaries stand (left), each with a book under his arm, holding out their demands for assignments on the exchequer; one has a paper inscribed 'Payer'. Their president, shrugging his shoulders, answers 'Impossible!' Another man seated on a bale (right) counts on his fingers; before him are figures giving a total of 'o'. A third holds up a paper: '2 /2 /3/', looking at it through an eye-glass. On the wall is a 'Tafel van Multiplicatie' and beside it shelves in which are books and bundles of papers, one inscribed 'Pretentions des Trouppes Suisses'. A shelf is inscribed 'Insolvable'.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department