print; broadside

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Object Type: print; broadside
Museum number: 1868,0808.13418
Title: Object: T' Radt Van Avontveren. (The Wheel of Fortune); Object: Dvs Draeyt Dvs Gaet Des Werelts Staet.
Description: A Dutch broadside contrasting the deaths of Charles X of Sweden and Cardinal Mazarin and the exhumation of Cromwell, all taking place in 1661, illustrated by a wheel of fortune. Around the wheel are seven men representing Peace, Wealth, Vanity, Power, Discord, Envy, War and Destitution; in the centre the death bed of Charles X with his queen and young son and heir, at the foot of his bed a man named "G. Adolf", perhaps intended for his brother Adolf Johann, together with councillors of state including the chancellor of the regency, Magnus de la Garde. The wheel is flanked below on both sides with figures representing European states with shields of arms at their feet, identified as follows: the Pope, the Elector of Cologne, the Elector of Mainz, a Hollsteiner, the King of Spain, the King of England, the Holy Roman Emperor, the King of Poland, the King of Denmark, the Elector of Brandenburg, a Dutchman and a Courlander. Iin the top right an inserted scene shows the hanging of the disinterred regicides, Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton on 30 January 1661; in the top left corner another scene shows the body of Cardinal Mazarin lying in state in March 1661. Engraved titles, inscriptions, and verses underneath the top two images, and with letterpress verses by Jan Soet in five columns. (n.p.: [1661?])
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Production date: 1661 (?)
Materials
Technique: engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 339 millimetres (engraving); Height: 437 millimetres (printed area); Width: 512 millimetres (engraving); Width: 512 millimetres (printed area)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For another, earlier broadside published by Allard with engraved verses, see BM 1849-3-15-33.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1004); Muller 1863-1882 / De Nederlandsche Geschiedenis in Platen. Beredeneerde Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Historieplaten (2153) (cf)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; execution; death; heraldry; allegory/personification
Associated names: Representation of: Karl X Gustav, King of Sweden; Representation of: Karl XI, King of Sweden; Portrait of: Hedwig Eleonore, Queen of Sweden; Portrait of: Adolf Johann I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg (?); Portrait of: Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie; Representation of: Oliver Cromwell; Representation of: John Bradshaw, Lord Bradshaw; Representation of: Henry Ireton; Representation of: Cardinal Jules Mazarin; Representation of: Pope Alexander VII; Representation of: Philip IV, King of Spain; Representation of: Charles II, King of England; Representation of: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor; Representation of: John II Casimir, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania; Representation of: Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway; Representation of: Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg (the 'Great Elector'); Illustration to: Jan Soet
Associated places: Associated with: Sweden; Associated with: Cologne (city); Associated with: Mainz; Associated with: Duchy of Holstein; Associated with: Spain; Associated with: Poland; Associated with: Denmark; Associated with: Netherlands; Associated with: Kurzeme (district)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.13418

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