De Vlugt van 't Pausdom
n.d.
Medium
Etching and letterpress
Dimensions
sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (55 x 38.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.95.690
Tags
Art Historical Context
This striking print, *De Vlugt van 't Pausdom* (“The Flight of the Papacy”), was created by Dutch artist Romeyn dehe using etching combined letterpress text. The sheet, measuring over-one inches tall, presents lively allegorical scene by lions, bears, birds, men, women, and chariots—elements that suggest a satirical commentary on the papacy’s retreat or defeat. Such combinations of image and printed text were typical of seventeenth-century broadsides, allowing the work to reach a wide audience through both visual drama and explanatory captions. De Hooghe was renowned for his dynamic etchings ...
About the Artist
Romeyn de Hooghe · 1645–1708
Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was a Dutch Baroque engraver, draughtsman, and political satirist who became the most prolific and versatile graphic artist of the Dutch Republic in the late seventeenth century. Born in Amsterdam, he rose to become one of early modern Europe's most important printmakers and a pioneering master of political satire. De Hooghe's significance extends far beyond his techn...