print;
broadside;
puzzle-picture
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.575
- Title
- Object: Die [drei Blinden] aus [Böhmen]
- Description
-
A broadside with a rebus responding to Frederick V's flight from Bohemia, satirising him as one of three blind travelling beggars; with an engraving showing title and text in two columns where some of words or parts of words have been replaced with pictorial images. (n.p.:[1621])
- Production date
- 1620
- Dimensions
-
Height: 273 millimetres
-
Width: 195 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Paas dates the sheet 1620.
The rebus refers to "this new time of carnival" (diser neuen [faßnacht] Zeit), which Harms interprets as spring 1621. Furthermore, at the very end the rebus refers to Frederick's exile in the Netherlands. He arrived in Den Haag at the beginning of April 1621, which again supports Harms's dating.
After a brief introduction by a narrator/singer, the remaining rebus records the three blind beggars' story about their flight from Bohemia. One of the beggars can be identified as Frederick V, the two others may be his courtiers Ludwig Camerarius and Abraham Scultetus, who both had to flee from Bohemia as well.
For another version of this broadside, see BM 1875-7-10-4363.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.575
