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Satirizing domestic and international affairs at the end of the eighteenth century

[VERMYNEN, Kees].
Lanterne magique, of toverlantaern, o soo mooi!  Fraai Curieus! vertoonende zeer duidelyk de wonderlyke  zaaken, die in deezen wonderlyke tyd voorvallen. Eerste - twintigste en laatste vertoning.

With engraved frontispiece, showing people in a darkened room looking at a scene projected by a magic lantern on a screen, showing in a lighted circle the Prince of Orange with his wife and three children, an angel above holding a crown, with in the background the Dutch Lion holding the fasces, people running in fear of being struck by lightning, and a group of watchful Prussian soldiers.

With engraved frontispiece, showing people in a darkened room looking at a scene projected by a magic lantern on a screen, showing in a lighted circle the Prince of Orange with his wife and three children, an angel above holding a crown, with in the background the Dutch Lion holding the fasces, people running in fear of being struck by lightning, and a group of watchful Prussian soldiers.

With engraved frontispiece, showing people in a darkened room looking at a scene projected by a magic lantern on a screen, showing in a lighted circle the Prince of Orange with his wife and three children, an angel above holding a crown, with in the background the Dutch Lion holding the fasces, people running in fear of being struck by lightning, and a group of watchful Prussian soldiers.



(Rotterdam), (Kees Vermynen), 1782-1783. 20 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemp. boards, uncut.
With engraved frontispiece, showing people in a darkened room looking at a scene projected by a magic lantern on a screen, showing in a lighted circle the Prince of Orange with his wife and three children, an angel above holding a crown, with in the background the Dutch Lion holding the fasces, people running in fear of being struck by lightning, and a group of watchful Prussian soldiers. 320 pp.

Satirical periodical, published in 20 issues from September 1782 till June 1783 by Kees Vermynen, bookseller at Rotterdam. The first two issues are especially addressed to the readers of the "spectatorial" weekly "De Post van den Nederrhyn", very popular at the time, and at the end of the first three issues is announced that the present periodical is sold at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, 's-Gravenhage, and Utrecht, but certainly not "by die Ouderwetsche  Patriotische Prins-gezinde Boekwurmen, als Gosse, Bennet & Hake, Luzac & van Damme", etc.
The periodical is entirely written in a sort of macaronic French-Dutch language, and makes relentless fun of the Patriots and their French orientated democratic views. But also other political issues are discussed, like the position of England and her colonies, John Adams' mission, etc. The anonymously published issues were at first ascribed to the Orangist, R.M. van Goens, and the "Nouveau Lanterne Magique" published in reaction against the present "Lanterne Magique" was especially aimed at Van Goens. The title itself: "Toverlantaern, O soo Mooi", became popular for all similar satirical publications, with "Nieuwe Tooverlantaern" as reaction against it.

Good copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed, spine dam. as usual; library stamp on top of frontispiece and erased from title).
Buijnsters-Geerars, Bibliogr. satir. Tijdschr., in: Doc.blad Werkgroep 18e Eeuw, I, 5, IV,  29; Muller, Hist.prenten, 4484; cf. Van Rijn, Rotterdamse Librye, 1891, 6; Muller 760 (similar title, with 15 issues, from 1799, also anti-French).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Dutch  England  Optics  Periodicals  Satire 

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