French atrocities in Bodegraven and Zwammerdam, 1672, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1673 print Presentation of the atrocities committed by the French troops in the Dutch villages of Bodegraven and Zwammerdam, at the end of December 1672. The inscription is worn in the air by personifications of the war and the French cruelty. On the left the burning village of Zwammerdam with the drawbridge. In the foreground rapes, torture and murder. The show is caught in an octogonal list, wounded by thorns and crowned with a skull. Later edition of the print with under the show a verse over three columns in the Dutch
French atrocities in Bodegraven and Zwammerdam, 1672, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1673 print Presentation of the atrocities committed by the French troops in the Dutch villages of Bodegraven and Zwammerdam, at the end of December 1672. The inscription is worn in the air by personifications of the war and the French cruelty. On the left the burning village of Zwammerdam with the drawbridge. In the foreground rapes, torture and murder. The show is caught in an octogonal list, wounded by thorns and crowned with a skull. Later edition of the print with under the show a verse over three columns in the Dutch of G. Bidloo about the events. Northern Netherlands paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death. massacre ~ war. plundering ~ soldiers. rape, violation Bodegraven. Zwammerdam
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