Hollands Boilling Cow, 1690. Cartoon at Willem Bentinck, Count of Portland. The count rides a blindfolded donkey whose back is a cow. The animal carries a saddle bag on which the text 'pour les amis' is located. From the bag shares Bentick Baljuwschapen, Heemraads posts, money and the like. Through his blindfold, the donkey decreases the representatives of the different cities (the city weapons of Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden et al. Are among these figures). At the front right the claws are cut from a chained Dutch lion. On the right a gate with the coat of arms of The Hague with the inscription
Hollands Boilling Cow, 1690. Cartoon at Willem Bentinck, Count of Portland. The count rides a blindfolded donkey whose back is a cow. The animal carries a saddle bag on which the text 'pour les amis' is located. From the bag shares Bentick Baljuwschapen, Heemraads posts, money and the like. Through his blindfold, the donkey decreases the representatives of the different cities (the city weapons of Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden et al. Are among these figures). At the front right the claws are cut from a chained Dutch lion. On the right a gate with the coat of arms of The Hague with the inscription: t sleeps here. On the left, the allegorical figure riotes the representations of prosperity, peace and trade the door. In the background murals of the Trojan horse and members of the English court kissing Willem III's butt. At the bottom of the print, freedom and trade crying on a tomb with the inscription 'Hic Jacet Edictum Perpetuum 1672, VI & Fraud'. On the blade under the plate a Dutch text in 3 columns printed with a declaration of the figures 1-15.
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