[Dutch] Attributed to GOLTZIUS, Hendrick. After Karel Van Mander Aan den Meester Tonge-Slyper. Haarlem, Engraving, 19,5 x cm (plate), 40,8 x 31,5 cm (sheet), laid paper with Dutch watermark of ca. (foolscap, Heawood: 1997), unsigned (foxed, edges sl. frayed). The Tongue Grinders was a Dutch satirical print on King Jacob II and the Glorious Revolution. In a workshop tongues which have turned black and thick from lying are now being ground up. At the right a basket with tongues has just arrived from London and includes those of the King and Friar Peters (Edward Petre). The engraving is accompanied by a Dutch poem in three columns and is signed with a comical address "à Langres chez Tongelel". Ref. New Hollstein (Van Mander), 106:- Muller I:
[Dutch] Attributed to GOLTZIUS, Hendrick. After Karel Van Mander Aan den Meester Tonge-Slyper. Haarlem, Engraving, 19,5 x cm (plate), 40,8 x 31,5 cm (sheet), laid paper with Dutch watermark of ca. (foolscap, Heawood: 1997), unsigned (foxed, edges sl. frayed). The Tongue Grinders was a Dutch satirical print on King Jacob II and the Glorious Revolution. In a workshop tongues which have turned black and thick from lying are now being ground up. At the right a basket with tongues has just arrived from London and includes those of the King and Friar Peters (Edward Petre). The engraving is accompanied by a Dutch poem in three columns and is signed with a comical address "à Langres chez Tongelel". Ref. New Hollstein (Van Mander), 106:- Muller I:
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