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拍品专文
Balzer dates the etching to 1796 when the French were attempting to run the Netherlands as a revolutionary puppet state.
细节
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An etching in red ink by David Hess (1770-1843), depicting political caricatures, including Napoleon, and showing a man looking into a peepbox marked 'L'armée du Prince Frederic d'Orange', 223 x 275mm; a page from De Nieuwsgierige Nar (The Curious Fool), with an engraving of a man looking into a peepbox, 95 x 155mm.; an engraving of a travelling showman carrying a peepbox on his back, 120 x 145mm. (3)
An etching in red ink by David Hess (1770-1843), depicting political caricatures, including Napoleon, and showing a man looking into a peepbox marked 'L'armée du Prince Frederic d'Orange', 223 x 275mm; a page from De Nieuwsgierige Nar (The Curious Fool), with an engraving of a man looking into a peepbox, 95 x 155mm.; an engraving of a travelling showman carrying a peepbox on his back, 120 x 145mm. (3)
出版
Richard Balzer (1998), Peepshows A Visual History, p. 63, no. 77
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