Ce forgeron myn goede vrind fait sortir de la teste een kind [graphic].

Ce forgeron myn goede vrind fait sortir de la teste een kind [graphic].

Aan den experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith
New Hollstein title: Forging of heads

[Netherlands?] : Iean Bollard ex, [1689]

1 print : engraving, with text in letterpress ; image plate mark 192 x 267 mm, on sheet 413 x 322 mm

paper

A satire on rumors about James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales, as a supposititious child and attempts of the Jesuits and James II to return England to the Catholic Faith. In a forge shop, three blacksmiths at work at an anvil break open the head of Father Petre from which emerges the figure of the young Prince of Wales holding a windmill; a Jesuit's cap leans against the anvil. A man works at the forge behind them, his left hand operating the bellows. To left, two baskets filled with human heads, three oranges lying on the ground; to right, three other heads, one of which has been broken open and two crowns.

Title from lettering below image.

The print is a reworking of an engraving by the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after a design by Karel van Mander (ca. 1592). A third state further reworked and used in Abraham Allard, Roma perturbata, 1705. (New Hollstein)

With 84 lines of Dutch verse in letterpress below, titled: Aan den experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands). Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke bibliotheek (Knuttel), 13230C
British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum (1870-1954) (George) 1165
New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Karel van Mander, 107 state 2

Netherlands.

ART 266- 629 (size M)

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