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The cruelties of Louix XIV

HOOGHE, Romeyn de.
Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen, geopent in ses tooneelen, waer op de wisselbeurten des Vereenigde Staets door den Fransen oorlog gebrouwen, in historieele sinnebeelden, vertoont en beschreven zijn.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece and 6 large double-page engraved allegorical plates by Romeyn de Hooghe.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece and 6 large double-page engraved allegorical plates by Romeyn de Hooghe.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece and 6 large double-page engraved allegorical plates by Romeyn de Hooghe.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece and 6 large double-page engraved allegorical plates by Romeyn de Hooghe.



Amsterdam, by the author, 1674. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece and 6 large double-page engraved allegorical plates by Romeyn de Hooghe. 36 pp.

Rare first edition of a richly and beautifully designed print-series allegorically illustrating the injustice and cruelty of the war waged by Louis XIV of France against the free and independent Dutch Republic. Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), was unquestionably the most gifted and the most prolific Dutch book illustrator of the second half of the 17th century. Just as the work of Adriaan van de Venne shows us the richness and diversity of daily life in the Dutch Republic of the first half of the 17th century, so the work of Romeyn de Hooghe displays the political grandeur and the disasters of war in the Republic of the second half of the 17th century.
Especially the political events of the 1670's, which reached its rock-bottom in 1672, were depicted dramatically and at the same time with great splendour by Romeyn de Hooghe in various print-series, of which the present is the rarest. The large plates are richly designed and full of intricate emblems and allegories, which  are fully explained in the accompanying text. To each plate also an emblematic poem is added. The size of the plates is ca. 23 x 35 cm., excluding the wide margins.

Good print series, with manuscript annotation in ink on inside front cover.- (Top of front cover restored; edges of frontispece sl. frayed).
Landwehr, R. de Hooghe, p. 38; Hollstein IX, Romeyn de Hooghe, nos. 103-108 (missing the  front.); not in NUC.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Low Countries  Print Series  Romeyn de Hooghe 

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