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Het beest van Babel is aan 't vluchten de godsdienst heeft niet meer te duchten!
Title
Het beest van Babel is aan 't vluchten [graphic] : de godsdienst heeft niet meer te duchten!.
Publication
[Amsterdam?] : Gisling Geneve exc. [that is, Romeyn de Hooghe?], [1688]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 22 x 29 cm, on sheet 36 x 31 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title engraved below image, with two columns of verse below in letterpress.
Publisher, place of publication, and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1864,0813.274.
Summary
"A Dutch broadside satirising the arrival of William III in England and the overthrow of James II and his Roman Catholic policies; with an engraving showing in the foreground on the right William (7) in armour mounted on the Dutch lion (1), attacking the many-headed Babylonian dragon (2) with his lance. Above William flies the angel of Providence (3). To left, priests and Catholic officials (4) flee, some riding on goats, wolves and asses. The dragon carries the infant Prince of Wales holding a windmill (5) held by Father Petre (6). The lion rides over fallen monks and Jesuits (8) and two decapitated heads of the dragon. In the centre background William is received by English notables (9). To left, James (10) departs in a small boat from a shore with a ruined church; to right; he is received by Louis XIV (11), together with Mary of Modena and the infant Prince of Wales. With engraved title, false publication line "Gisling Geneve exc.", and numbering 1-10, and with letterpress verses, including legend, in two columns."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
Dutch
Added to Catalog
February 23, 2024
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, no. 1178
Subjects
Genre/Form
Allegorical prints.
Broadside poems.
Watermarks (Paper)
Satires (Visual works) - Netherlands - 1688.
Etchings - Netherlands - Amsterdam - 1688.
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