print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1885,1114.167
- Title
- Object: T is Vergeefs Gevlucht D' Ydele Vlucht Vertoont in de Schielikke Dood van Kornelis en Jan de Wit.
- Description
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A broadside on the murder of Jan and Cornelis de Witt, linking this event with a satire on Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Prince-Bishop of Münster being defeated by death; with an engraving showing the bishop on horseback, pursued by Death, a skeleton on horseback, shooting with a pistol, in the background a battle scene outside the city of Münster; with letterpress title and verses in two columns on the death of the brothers de Witt. (n.p.: 1672)
- Production date
- 1672
- Dimensions
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Height: 248 millimetres (engraving)
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Height: 483 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 306 millimetres (engraving)
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Width: 306 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- The engraving is after one of 1644 by Hendrick Hondius II (Hollstein 29), which was in the interim adapted as a satire on Charles I.
For another impression of the same broadside, see BM 1871-12-9-4834.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,1114.167