print
- Museum number
- 1972,U.50.1-51
- Title
- Series: Renversement de la morale Chrétienne
- Description
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A series of fifty mezzotints showing satirical images of misbehaving friars and nuns, each in a roundel, preceded by an etched double page title-plate showing friars torturing Christ and collecting coins that drip from his body as blood; lettered with title and four lines in French below the images; numbered in the lower right corners in two series of twenty-five plates; with French and Dutch letterpress, explanatory text to each print. c.1695
Mezzotint and etching
- Production date
- 1695 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres (each sheet, c.)
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Height: 146 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The fifty plates are attributed by Hollstein to Jacob Gole. By Landwehr the fifty plates are attributed to Cornelis Dusart and the title-page to Romeyn de Hooghe. For a loose set, including the frontispiece, lacking plates 2 and 8 of series I and 11 of series II, see 1981,U.265-309 and 1981,U.265-316. A set of twelve of the original coloured drawings by Dusart are in the University of Leiden.
The series consists of caricatures of some enforcers of Louis XIV's anti-Huguenot policies (dragonnades, 1681; revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 1685
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1972
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.50.1-51