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The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 : Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age /
Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and King William III. This study, the first book-len...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press B.V.,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe1645-1708; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on Usage; Genealogical Table 1; Genealogical Table 2; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Under the Spire of the Zuiderkerk; The Zuiderkerk; The Gift of God; Ancestors; The Learned Son; 2. Ingenious Inventions and Rich Designs; Setting Up; News prints; Paris and Beyond; Book Illustrations; Critical Appreciation; The Art of Etching; Inventions and Designs; Wrestlers and Jews; Commercial Success; Marriage; Houses; Claims to Gentility; 3. Patriotic Prints; The Year of Disaster; Orangists and Republicans
- The Elevation of the Prince of OrangeThe de Witt Brothers Slain; French Tyranny; Illustrating the War; The Gelderland Affair; Satire; Publishing his Own Work; Dedications; The Wheel of Fortune; Competitors; 4. A Wandering Whore and a Talking Dog; The Wandering Whore; The Talking Dog; The Forged Chinese Pictures; The Nicked Timepiece and the Lace Jabot; The (Not So) Secret Life of Maria Lansman; Honour and Shame; The Anatomist and the Abbe; Novels and Drollery; 5. A Fresh Start; Romeyn Evicted?; Uncle Pieter's Testament; Motives for Moving; Before the Consistory; Settling Down; Moving Up
- A Drawing Academy and a Stately MansionA Prestigious Map; Client of the Stadtholder; A Blueberry Diploma; 6. The Prince Abandoned and Regained; The Great Turkish War; The Luxembourg Affair; The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; The Glorious Revolution; Glorifying the Revolution; 7. The Harlequin Prints; Lampooning the Sun King; Arlequin Deodat; The Son of a Miller; Riding the Hippogryph; Frogs and Toads; Hypochondriacs; Royal Infidelity; Three Kings; A Royal Enema; Royal Cuckolds; Driving Home the Message; 8. Lampooning the Regents; The Cows, the Herdsman, and the Wolf
- The Affair of the MagistratesA New Tune: Toads and Barrel-Riders; The French Calendar: The Cock and the Donkey; Bigwig and the Privilege-Seeker; A Stagecoach Chat; The French Blue Shin; The Cricket that Spoils the Harvest; 9. The Pamphlet War; A Triplet of Rogues; The Quack: Govert Bidloo; The Hack: Ericus Walten; The Orangist Triumvirate at Work; Arch-Cuckold de Hooghe; Vilifying Romeyn; Scaling Mount Parnassus; Arch-Cuckold Shareholder; 10. The Memorandum of Rights; Legal Action; Witnesses; Romeyn Interrogated; Blasphemy; A False Libel; Embarrassing Letters; 11. Honour Defended
- The Chief Sheriff FooledMore Pamphlets; Bribery Exposed; Malice and the Spirit of Quarrelling; Romeyn Spins a Conspiracy; Walten Sacrificed; Tying Up Loose Ends; 12. Serving the Stadtholder; The Desolate End of Ericus Walten; Running a Spy Network; Father and Daughter; Vassal of Kennemerland; 13. Composing most Pompously; Intendant of the King's Buildings; Director of the Lingen Quarries; Director of the Triumphal Arches; Tampering with the Books; Oil Paintings; Glasses, Cups, and Medals; The World's First Satirical Periodical; Self-Portraits; 14. Final Years; A Masterless Man