Opening the Sluices or the Secret Expedition, John Cawse (attributed to), 1799

Title(s)

Het openen van de sluizen, 1799
Opening the Sluices or the Secret Expedition (title on object)

Object type

• print
• cartoon

Object number

RP-P-1981-43

Catalogue reference

• FMH 5557-A
  Remark: (toegevoegd nummer RPK)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2760
• collector's mark: ‘E’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘I.N: 1944 / 5809’

Description

Spotprent waarin drie grote dikke Nederlandse viswijven met strohoeden copieus staande urineren, in de waterstroom worden de Britse soldaten weggespoeld. Drie kikkers doen hetzelfde. Spotprent op de onverwachte tegenstand van de Nederlanders tijdens de Brits-Russische invasie in Noord-Holland in 1799.

Artist

• print maker: John Cawse (attributed to)
• publisher: Samuel W. Fores (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

Oct-1799

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / hand coloring

Measurements

height 400 mm × width 252 mm

What

• urination - AA - female human figure
• tailless amphibians: frog

When

• 1799 - 1799

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1981

Copyright

Public domain

• Catalogue of political and personal satires, cat.nr. 9421
• Kikkers en kaaskoppen : Nederland en Nederlanders in buitenlandse spotprenten, Daniel R. Horst, p. 38, afb. 23