Bericht van den solemneele bal, die de potentaten van Europa op de groote Duitsche zaal gehouden hebben ... = Ouverture du bal solemnel ...
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.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.