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Newe Zeitung : der bär hat ein horn bekommen.
Published
[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [1633]
etching
plate mark: 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (155 x 248 mm); image: 5 11/16 x 7 9/16 inches (145 x 192 mm); sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (359 x 248 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1211
Notes
Engraved inscription and lettering A-D, with letterpress title and text and legend in two columns, and the letterpress with one vertical segment and a frame of type ornaments.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Broadside satirising Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria and his Jesuit advisers, who, after the victories of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1631/32, had lost lands in the Palatinate and influence in the Empire; with an etching showing on the right a heraldic lion attacking a bear and placing a horn on the bear's head, on the left a group with the Maximilian's court jester Jonas and two Jesuits, one trying to place an Elector's cap on the head of the bear.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
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