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Het committè militair
Title
Het committè militair [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1796]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 27.6 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 38 x 28 cm + 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Emblems: skeletons as Dutch army -- Holland: reorganization of the army -- Military uniforms: French uniforms -- Hunchbacks -- Military national guards: Dutch national guard -- Holland: civil discord -- Committees: military committee.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue.
One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata.
Plate numbered "3" in upper left corner.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A skeleton (cf. BMSat 8825), representing the reorganized Dutch army, stands on a rectangular pedestal, inscribed 'De \ niewwe \ orga= \ nio \ satie. \ 1795. \ Het Ith Jaar der \ Batavsche Vryhyd'. It wears a cocked hat and short military coat (showing its ribs - 'un bel uniforme à la Française'), and smokes a pipe. Two French officers are on the left, one turns his back on the skeleton and rides his cane, like a hobby horse, his sabre against his shoulder. The other holds up an admonishing arm towards two dejected Dutch officers of unmilitary appearance: one appears to be a member of the National Guard, the other, a hunch-back, wearing jackboots and sword but leaning decrepitly on a cane, tramples on 'Traité sur l'honeur Milita[ire]'. He is 'General S.' Text, 'Jeremiah', xlviii. 14."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
Dutch; French; English
Added to Catalog
December 10, 2007
With
With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8848
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 373
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1796.
Etchings - England - London - 1796.
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