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Satire on predatory printers in Germany
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In the middle a publisher next to a predatory printer who has stripped him down to his shirt; in the cave behind them two other predatory printers cut his jacket into pieces. The publisher points to Justice (Justitia) who lies asleep on the ground. From the cave fly a demon and a bat, in the background other publishers flee the scene.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineSatire op roofdrukkers in Duitsland. 1781. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
