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Committee for Removal, 1795
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Committee for Removal, 1795

anonymous · 1799 · etching; engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Satirical print on the (non-existent) Committee of Removal, 1795. In a church, the grave of a Prince of Orange is destroyed and desecrated. A skeleton is trampled to pieces and a boy urinates on a skull. Following the destruction of the grave of the Frisian Nassaus in the Jacobijnerkerk in Leeuwarden on August 1, 1795.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineComité van Remotie, 1795. 1799. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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