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Satirical print on the midshipman Berghuis, 1784
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Satirical print on the midshipman Berghuis, 1784

Joannes Hulstkamp · 1784 · letterpress printing; etching; paper

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

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Satirical print on the midshipman Antonie Berghuis of the Ninth Citizen Company in Rotterdam, who during the violence on 3 April 1784 fled into the sugar shop Het Lam and got stuck in the syrup. On a leaf below the plate, a poem of 20 lines.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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cartoonprintRotterdamPatriots (1780-1795)
Credit lineSpotprent op de adelborst Berghuis, 1784. 1784. Joannes Hulstkamp. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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