Cartoon on Dutch poets, 1841, anonymous, after Gerhard Thomas Mohrman, 1841, Cartoon from 1841 on a number of Dutch poets from the first half of the nineteenth century, denounced by Hecker in his 'Hippokreen desolation' of 1838. Procession of nine grotesquely dressed poets riding on a variety of different animals to the top of Mount Helikon. At the top at 'Dichters-Welvaren' they are welcomed by a man (Johannes Immerzeel) with a dog. The poets are (from top to bottom): Jan van 's Gravenweert on a dromedary, Willem Hendrik Warnsinck on a donkey, Christianus Robidé van der Aa on a long-

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