Image not available
Het Committè van Uitgewekenen
etching
image: 25.1 x 20.9 cm; plate: 27.4 x 21.8 cm; sheet: 29.3 x 23.6 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2912
Published:
[1796]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 12.
Plate number 12 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Summary:
The patriots approach the committee (apparently two French Représentants en Mission) with requests for money and clothes. Four men stand obsequiously on the right, two with papers inscribed 'Request'. From the pocket of one (right), dressed as a soldier, projects a carriage-lamp (which he is alleged in the text to have stolen). One Frenchman (wearing a scarf inscribed 'Representant'), holding a pair of breeches, puts money into an outstretched palm. The other haughtily watches the suppliants.
Catalog link:
Classification:
Department: