Cartoon on the regents of Amsterdam, 1690: Groothans and the Privilege-seeker. The Privilege-seeker (the citizenry of Amsterdam) kneels imploring and weeping with a yoke on his shoulders by a large city lantern (with which he seeks privileges), while on the left Groothans (a regent) hands him a book (possibly a privilege book). On the left a pile of Amsterdam privileges with rats gnawing at it and a dog urinating against it. In the background, on the right, a funeral procession in a cemetery marked: desolate Kercof for the Previlegie. On the sheet below the picture an accompanying text in

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