1st Edition
The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
By Henk van Nierop
Copyright 2018
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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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-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Note on Usage, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Under the Spire of Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerk, 2. Ingenious Inventions and Rich Designs Setting Up, 3. Patriotic Prints Year of Disaster, 4. A Wandering Whore and a Talking Dog The Wandering Whore, 5. A Fresh Start Romeyn Evicted?, 6. The Prince Abandoned and Regained The Great Turkish War, 7. The Harlequin Prints Lampooning the Sun King, 8. Lampooning the Regents The Cows, the Herdsman, and the Wolf, 9. The Pamphlet War Triplet of Rogues, 10. Memorandum of Rights Legal Action, 11. Honour Defended The Chief Sheriff Fooled, 12. Serving the Stadtholder The Desolate End of Ericus Walten, 13. Composing Most Pompously Intendent of the King's Buildings, 14. Final Years Masterless Man, Appendix, Index
Biography
Henk van Nierop is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has widely published on the Dutch Revolt and the Dutch Golden Age. He is the author of The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650 (1993) and Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt (2009).
