Satire on the poor drunkenly celebrating the end of the war of spanish succession, retouched state of a print after vinckboons; the beggars' inn; peasants and beggars seated outside an inn ('smetsende bedelars'), five dancing in a circle at left to the music of a hurdy-gurdy, others seated at tables at right, two peasants in a brawl in front of the tavern's door, each pulled back by a woman; some of them eating and drinking, one vomiting, one man with a wooden leg and crutches, a woman feeding her baby, a dog chewing a bone in central foreground, three peasants de-lousing in left background, a kissing couple seen through a window of the tavern in top right; a man leans out of a window at top left, waving a broom from which hangs a tattered cloth; the inn-sign ('smetsende bedelars') is covered with a large cobweb; worn impression. 1608, retouched and published in 1713
engraving and etching. Date: 1608. Dimensions: Height: 276 mm (trimmed?); Width: 353 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. De Spot met d'Oorlog, door ontydige Vrede makers Gedreven (The Mocking of War by preposterous Peace-Makers) (BM 1871,1209.4889)
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