Dutch running cow, 1690

Satirical print on Willem Bentinck, Count of Portland. The count rides on a blindfolded donkey whose rear end is a cow. The animal carries a saddlebag on which the text 'pour les amis' stands. From the bag Bentick distributes bailiffships, alderman posts, money and more. Through his blindfold the donkey tramples the representatives of the different cities (the city coats of arms of Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden etc. lie under these figures). On the right front the claws are cut off a chained Dutch Lion. On the right a gate with the coat of arms of The Hague with the inscription: T Sleeps Here All. On the left the allegorical figure Riot kicks the representations of Prosperity, Peace and Trade out the door. In the background wall paintings of the Trojan Horse and members of the English court kissing the backside of Willem III. At the bottom of the print Liberty and Trade lie crying on a tomb with the inscription 'Hic Jacet edictum perpetuum 1672, vi & fraude'.