print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1864,0813.271
- Title
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Object: Het Groote Stookhuis Der Princen dezes Tijds, in Europe. (The Great Laboratory of the Princes of these Times in Europe)
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Object: Labouratoire dece [sic] Temps
- Description
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A Dutch broadside satirising the European political situation at the end of 1688 metaphorically compared to chaos in an alchemist's laboratory with an etching first produced in 1674 and now considerably altered to apply to current events. In the centre (1) is the Imperial kiln surmounted by jars labelled Essek, Belgrade and Offen; in front of it, the duke of Bavaria (2) smashes a sphere decorated with a sun and a moon representing the Ottoman Empire; to the left, Charles of Lorraine (3), discharges a stream of Hungarians from a clyster pipe into the face of a Frenchman. Behind him (4) Count Imre Thököly, leader of a Hungarian uprising against the Empire, is defeated by Germany and struck on the head by an crucible representing the battle of Munkacs; he screams to Louis XIV for help, but in vain; the Emperor's generals (5) pursue him. In the centre, James II (6) with a damaged volume on his lap representing the Test Act, turns to Louis XIV (7) who points with his sword towards a broken still marked "Palts" (Palatinate). To the right of the image, in a hand that is not that of de Hooghe, the Pope (8) siezes the cardinal's hat of Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (9). At the top of the scene, left of centre, a Swiss soldier (10) looks at a roundel with the fall of Phaeton while an Italian scrapes the rust from his stiletto. Beyond the scene with the Pope,William of Orange and his navy (11) arrive at the coast of England. Right of centre, a Saxon and a Brandenburger (12) attck French conquests represented by a burning building; from the broken still of the Palatinate (13) spill crucibles marked with the names of the cities of Speyer, Heidelberg, Philippsburg, Metz, Frankenthal, Oppenheim. At the bottom three further scenes: on the left (14), Lavardin fleeing in his carriage is thrown into a ditch when his horses take fright at the sight of the vengeful spirit of Rome; in the centre (15), the devil confronts Father Petre; on the right (16,) the ghost of Charles II warns his brother James II against the Jesuits and against the Empire; James's guards flee in terror. Engraved title, inscriptions, and numbering 1-16, and with letterpress title and verses, including legend, in two columns. (n.p.: [1689])
- Production date
- 1689
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 540 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 357 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 357 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- For further comment, see 1871,1209.4844. Stephens erroneously refers to this state as the first, but dates it correctly to 1688.
For another impression of this state, see 1868,0808.3373.
The War of the Palatine Succession is also known as War of the League of Augsburg, or War of the Grand Alliance.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Turkish Wars 1683-1699
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Associated Event: Palatine War of Succession 1688-1697
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Associated Event: Glorious Revolution 1688-1689
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0813.271