print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1871,1209.4854
- Title
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Object: Vette Koe van Farao gy moet weeten.
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Object: Fabel van de Koeyen, de Herder, en de Wolf
- Description
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A broadside on the discord between Amsterdam and William of Orange, linkening it to a fable on cows, a shepherd, and a wolf; with an etching by de Hooghe showing in the foreground a creek, on the left bank a shepherd, on the R bank a herd of seven cows, in the R background burning houses and a wolf; with engraved title and with letterpress title and text in two columns. (Amsterdam:[1684])
- Production date
- 1684
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 362 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 270 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 270 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The imprint is fictitious ("Tot Amsterdam, Gedruckt voor Coppen Heerschops in de Spiegel voor de Raesheeren"), and the plate is signed with a pseudonym.
Six cows (six Dutch Provinces) regroup in circle while a seventh cow (Hollad) at the front, bigger and with fuller udders, threatens the group and refuses to stand with the others. The herdsman (William III) tries to discipline Holland's insubordination and to protect his herd from the wolf (Louis XIV) standing outside the fences of the Dutch Garden with burning villages behind him. Inside the Garden, a fox (Amsterdam) entices Holland to misbehave.
This broadside, for which De Hooghe presumably also wrote the text, refers to the escalation of tensions between William III and the regents of Amsterdam throughout 1690.
Lit.
Henk van Nierop, The life of Romeyn de Hooghe, 2018, p.241-244.
Meredith Hale, The birth of modern political satire : Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) and the Glorious Revolution, 2020, Chap. 4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,1209.4854