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Verminking van de lichamen van de gebroeders de Witt

Romeyn de Hooghe

1672

Medium

pen

Dimensions

h 398mm × w 292mm

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

paper; pencil; ink

Object Type

drawing

Subject Matter

death penalty, execution; violent death by removal of parts of the body by cutting, sawing, tearing; attempt, political murder; violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death (+ death by lynching); lynching; mutilation of the corpse

Production Place

Northern Netherlands

Acquisition Method

purchase

Acquired

1881

Notes

pen in bruin en penseel in grijs over een schets in potlood

Collection Type

drawings

About Romeyn de Hooghe

1645–1708 • Dutch Republic

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 to the son of an illiterate button-maker, he rose to become one of early modern Europe's most important printmakers and a pioneering master of political satire.