Cartoon on the old and young pretendent, 1745, 1745 - 1746 print Cartoon on the old and the young pretendent and the second Jacobitic uprising of 1745-1746. On a city square in front of Whitehall's palace, the old pretendent Jacobus Frans Eduard scratches his head and, to his son, points the young improvent Karel Eduard Stuart who is attacked by English dogs, a reference to his failed attempts around Stuart's house again on the throne to recover. On the left, faith rejects the rapprochement of a priest with goat legs, on the right the Netherlands Lion. In the background the Pope with a Frenchm
Cartoon on the old and young pretendent, 1745, 1745 - 1746 print Cartoon on the old and the young pretendent and the second Jacobitic uprising of 1745-1746. On a city square in front of Whitehall's palace, the old pretendent Jacobus Frans Eduard scratches his head and, to his son, points the young improvent Karel Eduard Stuart who is attacked by English dogs, a reference to his failed attempts around Stuart's house again on the throne to recover. On the left, faith rejects the rapprochement of a priest with goat legs, on the right the Netherlands Lion. In the background the Pope with a Frenchman and a Spaniard at a windmill and scenes of heretical persecutions by the Roman church. At the top left, the Phaëthon solar car falls from the sky. In the caption the explanation of the figures 1-7 in Dutch. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving political caricatures and satires. fall of Phaethon; he is struck by a thunderbolt of Jupiter. execution of heretic, by burning at the stake, 'auto-da-fé' Whitehall's palace (London)
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