De doot van het Eewigh Edict, geboren den 5 Augusti ao. 1667 [graphic].
1674
Items
Details
Title
De doot van het Eewigh Edict, geboren den 5 Augusti ao. 1667 [graphic].
Variant title
Letterpress title: Doodt van het Eeuwigh Edict : veroorsaeckt door 't Erf-Stadthouderschap van sijn Hoogheyt en sijn Mannelijcke Successeurs : vast gestelt den 2 Februarij 1674
Created/published
[Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [1674]
Description
1 item : etching and letterpress ; trimmed to or within plate mark 247 x 348 mm, overall dimensions 54 x 37 cm
Associated name
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, artist, attributed name.
Summary
Allegory showing a ruined room with a sick man in bed surrounded by various people, on the top left soldiers approaching, on the right a portrait of William of Orange.
Note
Satire on the retraction of the Perpetual Edict of 1667, which had abolished the stadtholdership in the States General. The overturn of the edict cleared the way for naming William III, Prince of Orange (later King of England) as hereditary stadtholder.
Title from etched text in trompe l'oeil cartouche in lower portion of image.
Two sheets printed oblong, apparently intended to form a single broadside. Upper half is a satirical etching with title "De doot van het Eewigh Edict, geboren den 5 Augusti ao. 1667." Attributed to De Hooghe by several authorities, disputed by John Landwehr (Romeyn de Hooghe the etcher, 1973, page 231.) Lower half has a letterpress caption and two columns of descriptive text indexed to the picture.
Title from etched text in trompe l'oeil cartouche in lower portion of image.
Two sheets printed oblong, apparently intended to form a single broadside. Upper half is a satirical etching with title "De doot van het Eewigh Edict, geboren den 5 Augusti ao. 1667." Attributed to De Hooghe by several authorities, disputed by John Landwehr (Romeyn de Hooghe the etcher, 1973, page 231.) Lower half has a letterpress caption and two columns of descriptive text indexed to the picture.
Place of creation/publication
Netherlands -- Amsterdam, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
270- 568b
Folger-specific note
Sheets attached; etching on top. Paper repair along previous vertical crease. Acquired from Jeffrey D. Mancevice (January miscellany:27), 2016-02-02.
Folger accession
270568