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Het Committè van de Vivres
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image: 25.3 x 20.7 cm; plate: 27.5 x 21.9 cm; sheet: 29.3 x 23.6 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2909
Published:
[1796]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed in dark red ink.
Printed in upper left corner of image: 7.
Plate number 7 in the series Hollandia regenerata.
Summary:
Two committee-men make requisitions from a peasant and a barrow-woman. One takes a fish from the creel on the fisherman's back, and puts it into a small cornucopia which he holds. The victim, who wears trousers and sabots filled with straw, holds a paper, 'Recepisse', and clenches his fist, furious at receiving a receipt instead of cash. The other, in back view, has taken a handful of turnips, the old woman looks at him with a hungry, puzzled stare.
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