Cartoon on the purge of the councils of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 1787, The Dutch Garden cleared of weeds (title on object), Patriotic cartoon on the purge of the councils of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 1787. Two gunmen tip their wheelbarrows in front of a walled garden containing the severed heads of the nine deposed Amsterdam councilors and the seven Rotterdam councilors. In the background on the right, the Dutch Freedom waters its garden, on the left a view of a wheelbarrow with the heads of the four dismissed colonels. From the clouds a hand crowns the bust of Hendrik Danielsz. Hooft On the page under the plate a verse of fourteen lines., print, print maker: anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1787, paper, etching, engraving, letterpress printing, height, 375 mm × width, 235 mm
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