Satire on the loss of Menen and the arrival of the Duke of Vendôme from Italy, 1706
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Caricature on the loss of Menen and the arrival of the Duke of Vendôme from Italy to Brabant, 1706. Carremans, the commander at Menen, standing on a tower laments the surrender of the city on August 22, 1706. Vendôme in a war chariot drawn by French roosters. Three columns of verses in Dutch and French in the print. Sheet no. 19 (numbered top right) in the series of 25 sheets titled: Supplement to the Royal Almanac, called the Golden Year of the Allies, 1706. Part of the print work published under the collective title: 't Lust-Hof van Momus, with the bound series of caricatures during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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