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Allegorical Representation of the Abuses of the Civil Service
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Allegorical Representation of the Abuses of the Civil Service

anonymous · 1694 - 1715 · engraving; paper

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

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Four estates side by side: from left to right: the clergy (a priest), the army (an officer), the peasantry (a farmer with baskets of chickens), the bureaucracy (a civil servant with letters and money bags). Allegory on the bureaucracy that pockets the cents for which the other three estates work. With explanatory texts.

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Credit lineAllegorische voorstelling op de misstanden van de ambtenarij. 1694 - 1715. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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