Maatrozen Saamenspraak te Port a Port Benevens de Fabel van de Kaktoe, Kuykedief, en den Haan (The Sailors' Conversation at Port-à-Port; with the Fable of the Cockatoo, the Kite, and the Cock), Romeyn de Hooghe, 1701

Title page to a tract entitled "maatrozen saamenspraak te port a port benevens de fabel van de kaktoe, kuykedief, en den haan", no. 16 in the series entitled "esopus in europa"; in the centre, an etching showing four sailors (a frenchman, a dutchman, a portuguese and an englishman) on a quayside, a broken cannon on the ground, disputing the relative merits of their navies; one of them, apparently the portuguese, wears a hood and carries two large books under his arm. Behind them is a bas-relief showing an eagle attacking a cockatoo, dead cockatoos killed by a kite, and a hen with its young, illustrating the fable of the cockatoos who join forces with the kite only to be destroyed by it. 1701 etching with letterpress printed in black ink. Date: 1701. Dimensions: Height: 98 mm (image plate); Height: 189 mm (sheet); Width: 128 mm (image plate); Width: 148 mm (sheet). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Aesop. Collection: British Museum. Print, satirical print, title-page (BM 1854,0513.522.16)