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Amsterdam in a dam'd predicament or The last scene of the Republican pantomime
1787
- Medium
- hand-coloured etching
- Measurements
- 32.0 × 44.5 cm (image) 33.2 × 44.9 cm (plate) 34.6 × 46.7 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- BM Satires 7181; Wright & Evans 29
- Printing/Publishing
- published by S. W. Fores, London
- Inscription
- printed in ink l.l.: Pub.d. (d in superscript above .) Nov.r (r in superscript above . ) 1.st (st in superscript above . ) 1787. by S.W.Fores. N:3 Piccadilly.
printed in ink l.c.: AMSTERDAM in a DAM'd Predicament, _ or _ The laſt Scene of the Republican Pantomine. (DAM'd underlined)
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) u.l.: Blast you, Goat! / to keep so many Women shut up / in your Seraglio. I’ll turn over a new / Leaf & allow every Woman 20000 Men
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: SIC. TRANSIT / GLORIA MUNDI
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) u.r.: Me ann Dam!
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) c.l.: By our holy Prophet & / sacred Mecca, I’ll curb / that wanton Spirit
printed in ink (in image) c.: (text on sword and barrels)
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) c.r.: Im ready for you! - Accession Number
- 1573.45-4
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Humour and Satire Law, Civics and Protest
- Subjects (specific)
- Amsterdam (inhabited place) assaults (personal life events) conflict (general sense) fires (events) frogs (animals) rulers (people) theatres (buildings) William V, Prince of Orange
- Movements
- Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
