De Fransche Degen, de Sleutel, en het Bonnet tot Luyk (The French Rapier, the key and the Bonnet at Liège), Romeyn de Hooghe, 1701

Title page to a tract entitled "de fransche degen, de sleutel, en het bonnet tot luyk", no. 19 in the series entitled "esopus in europa"; in the centre, an etching showing a table on which rests the french sword made of coins, a large key and a jesuit's bonnnet; a curtain behind to the left is decorated with fleur-de-lis; to the right, is a mousetrap and a snake. In the background, to left, is a view of a town with a man riding to execution with his hands tied behind his back; to right, a scene illustrating a fable told in the text, in which a man disguised as a hermit has used his pet fox to help robbers to attack his neighbours' sheep with the result that the fox has been hanged. 1701 etching with letterpress printed in black ink. Date: 1701. Dimensions: Height: 96 mm (image plate); Height: 187 mm (sheet); Width: 130 mm (image plate); Width: 148 mm (sheet). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Aesop. Collection: British Museum. De Fransche Degen, de Sleutel, en het Bonnet tot Luyk (The French Rapier, the key and the Bonnet at Liège) (BM 1854,0513.522.19)