Name: Rare-Antique Master Print-BROADSIDE-FALL OF JAMES II-De Hooghe-1688
SKU: PICTURA-12312
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Rare-Antique Master Print-BROADSIDE-FALL OF JAMES II-De Hooghe-1688

€395.00

‘AUT CAESAR AUT NIHIL’; ‘QUALIS VIR TALIS ORATIO”

– A broadside satirising the fall of James II; with an etching by de Hooghe showing an interior with James II sick in bed, wearing a Jesuit’s cap and a crown, vomiting numerous reptiles which wear crowns, tiaras, cardinals’ hats, and mitres, at the bedside to the right the Chancellor, Lord Mayor, and Aldermen holding their noses and turning away, on the left side of the bed a double-faced physician feeling the king’s pulse and holding a urine sample against the light, on the very L Father Petre receiving a passport and being pushed away, in the left foreground a monk talking to a nurses holding the infant Prince James, in the R foreground the Queen, Mary of Modena, sitting, in the R background an archway with a view onto a coastal landscape with a sunrise and the Dutch fleet embarking from the Netherlands. With Dutch text below.

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Description

Medium: Etching with letterpress text on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 39.4 x 54 cm (15.51 x 21.26 inch). Image size: 32 x 24 cm. (12.6 x 9.45 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Backed for ease of handling with old tekst pages. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ROMEYN DE HOOGHE, DUTCH SATIRE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY, 17TH CENTURY PRINT, AUT CAESAR AUT NIHIL, DUTCH REPUBLIC, ORANGIST PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAMES II, ETCHING WITH LETTERPRESS, EMBLEMATIC PRINT | PCO-B9-46

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Formerly attibuted to Romeyn de Hooghe. Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe, p.223; Muller 2767 (school of).

Reference: Landwehr p.223; Muller 2767 (school of); Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 49.95.691.

Biography artist: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was a prolific Dutch engraver, printmaker, and satirist active in Amsterdam and Haarlem. He became renowned for his elaborate political allegories and satirical prints during the Rampjaar (1672) and the reign of William III. His works combine intricate figural compositions with biting commentary and extensive letterpress texts, making him one of the most influential graphic propagandists of the Dutch Golden Age.