Identification title(s): severed heads for a monarch on a throne. Title page for: l. Van den bos, the theater of accidents, and a byplay of royal sorrows, 1683. Object type: print title page object number: rp-p-ob-48. 928. Catalog reference: rijksmuseum collection-1(2). Note: 2 states in the collection of the rijksmuseum; second state used for second edition. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228. Description: a monarch sits on a throne under a canopy with a guard to his right and a figure blowing a horn. On the left, grieving women kneel and a man wearing a helmet shows two severed heads to the figure on the throne. There are two severed heads on the ground in front of the throne. In the left foreground is the personified envy, with snakes on her head and in her hand and a torch and in front of it a second figure with a mask in front of her face who puts her hand in a treasure chest. In the background a warlord on a column. Bottom right eight lines in dutch. Perhaps this depicts caesar, to whom pompey's head is handed over. Title print of (the first edition of) a book by lambert van den bos with a total of twenty prints by arnold houbraken. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: arnold houbraken (mentioned on object), to own design by: arnold houbraken (mentioned on object), publisher: simon onder de linde. Place of manufacture: dordrecht. Dating: 1681 - 1683. Physical features: etching. Material: paper technique: etching. Dimensions: plate edge: h 177 mm × w 134 mmexplanationtitle page for: lambert van den bos, theater of accidents, dealing in (. . ) examples, the misery of the world powers. Dordecht: simon onder de linde, 1683. Subject: what: head of a beheaded person. Envy; 'invidia' (ripa) ~ personification of one of the seven deadly sinsruler, sovereign. Acquisition: unknown. Date: between 1681 and 1683.
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