"A Dutch soldier (left) and his wife (right), joining hands, dance round a tree of Liberty to music supplied by a foppish French soldier on the extreme left who beats a drum and blows a trumpet, and by a stout Dutchman on the extreme right who plays bagpipes inscribed 'Vader-lands Liefde' (Love of Country). The 'tree' is a pole surmounted by a milk-churn inscribed 'Vryheid \ Gellykheid \ Broederscha[p]', [This inscription (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) occurs on Dutch prints after the French invasion, e.g. Van Stolk, No. 5299; Muller, No. 5385.] above which is a cap of Liberty shaped like a fool's cap, and a tricolour flag inscribed 'Hollandia Regenerate[a]'. On the churn sits a parroquet, 'trying to imitate the patriotic accents of his French brothers'. A monkey climbs up the pole as in BMSat 8831. Texts, 'Acts', vii. 41, and 'Job', xviii. 16."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched above image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "1" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Dutch uniforms -- Dutchmen -- Holland: civil discord -- Tree of Liberty -- Cap of Liberty -- Emblems: dove as emblem of peace -- Monkeys -- Kitchen utensils: milk churns -- Musical instruments: drum -- Bagpipes -- Musical instruments: trumpets, and Letterpress explanation lacking.
"The Convention, a creature with the body of a stout woman and with seven monstrous and demoniac heads, sits full-face in an accoucheur's chair. A little demon on the ground holds up a pitchfork. A French surgeon, smiling (right), with shirt-sleeves rolled up, holds a clumsy pair of forceps; a Dutch accoucheur, fat and senile, peers into a folio volume: 'Sectio Caes: et Sectio Synchondroseos'. '. . . L'accoucheur Français, homme experimenté, prévoit ses terribles convulsions, et s'est déja muni du forceps. Son collegue Hollandais, dont les craintes vont encore plus loin, repete la théorie de l'incision Caesarienne. Il faudrait effectivement un Caesar, pour couper court à tout proces.' Text, 'Isaiah', xiv. 29. Her fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "19" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Conventions -- Surgeons -- Medical instruments: forceps -- Physicians: Dutch accoucheurs -- Monsters., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Eclipse of the Southern Sun puts many a place in darkness, as occasioned by the unpolitic Moon., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Three columns of verse in French titled "L'actieux souflet et le genie d'Erasme ...", below the verse in Dutch: 1. La Fraude est arrivée la premiere en Hollande ..., Plate 29 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Watermark., and Mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
"A birch-rod 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. 'O peuple aveugle et endormi! . . . C'est la liberté qui a formé pour ton éducation cette verge salutaire. . . .' Text, 'Ezekiel', vii. II."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "18" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Emblems: birch rod., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
Arc memorial dressé au lieu de l'enterrement des actionistes consumés
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Title engraved below image., Four columns of verse in Dutch on the left below image: De narrekap, die god merkuur door wind-negotie heeft gedrágen ..., Four columns of text in French on the right below image: Après que la tempête des actions est passée, Pallas ôte de bonne heure ..., Plate 59 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in the right part of sheet.