print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Y,1.118
- Title
- Object: Dr. Dorislaw's Ghost, Presented by T[ime] to unmask the Vizards of the Hollanders
- Description
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A broadside satirising the relationship between England and the Netherlands at the time of the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-54). An engraving shows on the left the Dutch ambassador, Paulus van der Perre; Time presents the naked female figure of Truth emerging from an open grave and representing Isaac Dorislaus, murdered in 1649 at the Hague by English royalists. Details are identified by a key: A. a man nailed across a door and being tortured and another about to be decapitated illustrating atrocities at Amboyna (1622); B. a council held in a pavilion, again in reference the war in the East Indies; C. a hyena; D. a crocodile; E. a chair with a pierced seat beneath which are cracked eggs; F. a fox with bags of gold; G. a chameleon; H. a scene, at top right, showing soldiers entering a building which refers to the murder of Dorislaus; I., the Dutch ambassador, from whose left wrist hang, K, three masks representing three Anglo-Dutch treaties (1613, 1615, 1619); L., held in the ambassador's right hand, a sun with a lion's paw; M. a fleet of ships representing the attack of Admiral von Tromp at the Battle of the Downs in 1652 (this detail, and B., as well as a ray of light emerging from eye and name of God, are taken from Samuel Ward's "Double Deliverance" (BM Satires 41)); N. Time removing a veil ; O. Truth, the ghost of Dorislaus, unveiled by Time, her lips sealed with a padlock in the form of a heart, holding the sun in her right hand and a martyr's palm in her left. Engraved Latin and English inscriptions, key A-O, and English letterpress title, legend, and a list in four columns of 27 cruelties committed by the Dutch against the English . (London, Hinde and Brooke: 1652).
- Production date
- 1652
- Dimensions
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Height: 295 millimetres (engraving)
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Height: 676 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 408 millimetres (engraving)
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Width: 431 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This sheet was copied in Holland (BM Satires 838).
Malcolm Jones records that a later state dated 1679 with a new title 'A nest of plots discovered' and different verses, is in the Sutherland Clarendon.
Literature: M.Jones 'The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight', New Haven and London, 2010, pp.117.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010 June-Sep, London, Tate Britain, Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
- Associated events
- Associated Event: First Anglo-Dutch War 1752-1754
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- with no evidence of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,1.118