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 Remotie

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Het Committè van Remotie

Published

[1796]

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image: 25.5 x 20.8 cm; plate: 27.7 x 22 cm; sheet: 29.5 x 23.7 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2916
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 16.
Plate number 16 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

The interior of a church or crypt, indicated by a stone wall with funeral monuments, and a flagged floor in which old graves have been violated. A soldier tramples on a skeleton, another levers up a flag-stone. Behind, a boy in military uniform, in back view, urinates upon a skull. A citizen raises a mallet in both hands to deface a large monument against the wall, on which is the figure of a bearded man in sixteenth-century armour. A plumed helmet and blazoned shield lie on the ground.

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