print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1864,0813.290
- Title
- Object: Desolaten Inventaris van de Franse Wracken (The sad list of French wrecks)
- Description
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Dutch broadside satirising Louis XIV and James II after the French defeat at the Battle at La Hogue on 3 June 1692 with an etching showing the protagonists on the shore. On the right, James II (A), the "Royal Courier", dressed in a coat decorated with fleur-de-lis and with a cockle-shell in his hat, gallops up on an ass holding a post-horn and brandishing a stick; behind him are two French admirals (B and C), one of whom must be intended for Admiral d'Estrées, and an officer (D) who is falling backwards from the ass; all are suffering from burns. In the foreground, a group of men salvage wreckage from the destroyed fleet (items listed in Dutch at the bottom of the sheet): the beachcomber looking for medicine jars (E) hauls part of the stern of the "Soleil Royal", the French Admiral's flagship, with Louis's sun emblem; the "alchemist of France, Ireland and Scotland" (F) stands under a bell-jar and holds a grappling iron; a black slave (G), wearing a metal collar embossed with the fleur-de-lis, holds a ship's compass; two fisherman (H) haul a net full of salvage; a young seaman (I) holds up a sieve or bucket of gold. On the left a group stands in front of a post to which is fixed an inventory of the lost French ships: a washerwoman (K) with a basket of clean breeches on her back stands behind the victorious Dutch Admiral (Almonde; L) who advises the French admirals on how to treat their burns; a Dutch sailor (M), offering to help the Admiral in any way, points at the basket; a defeated French gentleman (N) kisses the hand of the Admiral; behind him the French crier (O), wearing a tabard with fleur-de-lis bangs a gong drawing attention to the list of French ships lost in the battle. In the background, to left, bodies hang from trees, and to right, sunken ships can be seen at sea. Engraved inscriptions, lettering A-O, and "IIV" at bottom centre; Dutch title, legend and verses in two columns of letterpress. (n.p.:[1692])
- Production date
- 1692
- Dimensions
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Height: 285 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 598 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 354 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 354 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- For another impression, see BM1868-8-8-3397*.
Landwehr doubts the attribution to de Hooghe (J. Landwehr, Romeyn De Hooghe the Etcher, 1973, p.231), and the print is described as Anonymous by Cillesen (W. Cilleßen, Krieg der Bilder, exh.cat. Berlin 1997, pp.324-325).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Battle of La Hogue 1692
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0813.290
