Inwoners van Amsterdam in de gedaante van kikkers verzameld op de Dam te Amsterdam English cartoon in the Netherlands during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dam town hall is a crowd of people dressed as frogs gathered around the speech of an old trail to attend. Spread on the Dam are statues of Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Minerva opgesteld. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous printmaker: Wenceslaus Hollar (rejected attribution) Place manufacture: England Date: 1665 Physical features: etching material: paper Technique: etching Dimensions: plate edge: H 260 mm × W 174 mmToelichtingIllustratie
Inwoners van Amsterdam in de gedaante van kikkers verzameld op de Dam te Amsterdam English cartoon in the Netherlands during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dam town hall is a crowd of people dressed as frogs gathered around the speech of an old trail to attend. Spread on the Dam are statues of Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter and Minerva opgesteld. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous printmaker: Wenceslaus Hollar (rejected attribution) Place manufacture: England Date: 1665 Physical features: etching material: paper Technique: etching Dimensions: plate edge: H 260 mm × W 174 mmToelichtingIllustratie included in: Ogilby, John. The Fables of Aesop. London, 1665. Belonging to the fable Of the Frogs fearing the Sun would marry. Subject: political caricatures and satire tailless amphibians: frog (+ animals used symbolically) (story of) Neptune (Poseidon) (story of) Mercury (Hermes) (story or) Jupiter (Zeus) (story of) Minerva (Pallas Athena) Second Anglo-Dutch War Where: Dam
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