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Bericht van den solemneele bal, die de potentaten van Europa op de groote Duitsche zaal gehouden hebben ... = Ouverture du bal solemnel ...

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Arendt van Huissteen

Bericht van den solemneele bal, die de potentaten van Europa op de groote Duitsche zaal gehouden hebben ... = Ouverture du bal solemnel ...

Te Amsterdam : By Arendt van Huissteen ..., 1742.
illustration (engraving)
sheet: 22 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (56.6 x 36.9 cm)
Peel 1255
Notes
Engraving with text in letterpress.
Translated from the German.
Two columns of letterpress text, one in Dutch, one in French.
Image: 8 1/2 x 14 1/16 inches (21.6 x 35.7 cm).
Numbered figures within letterpress text.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A ballroom with many foreign leaders and high standing officials interacting. Frederick II of Prussia asks for Marie Theresa of Hungary to dance in the center; Frederik I of Sweden converses with a woman in the background; Louis XV of France and an unidentified are talking behind two unidentified seated men; George II of England and Philip V of Spain talk near a doorway with Christian VI of Denmark, John V of Portugal, and King Stanislaw in front of them; Theodore of Corsica dances towards the center taking off his hat and wearing a mask; Pope Benedict XIV addresses the crowd on a podium in the background; Mahmud I of Turkey is represented on a tapestry with another man, hanging on the wall in the back of the room; Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena talks to five men around the table in the back of the room with a tapestry of two men hanging above them.

Associated names
Huissteen, Arendt van, active 18th century, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department