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Eenige [union] der representanten van het volk van Holland

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Eenige [union] der representanten van het volk van Holland

Published

[1796]

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image: 25.4 x 20.4 cm; plate: 27.5 x 21.8 cm; sheet: 29.4 x 23.7 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2918
Notes
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 18.
Plate number 18 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A bundle of birch twigs placed diagonally, the handle (tied with rope) in the lower left corner of the design. From among the twigs ten heads (caricature portraits) project, also (right) the head of a boar and posteriors emitting smoke.

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