The Deceived Deceiver, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1702

Title page to a tract entitled "de gefopte bedrieger", no. 36 in the series entitled "esopus in europa"; in the centre, an etching showing in the foreground a ragpicker and a jewish woman who have suffered as a result of the french wars sit on the groun and behind them a former tailor, sitting on a bank beneath a tree, who has prospered because all the courts of europe follow french fashion; in the background, a tiger creeps off to the right while a herd of horses (one with a rug decorated with fleur-de-lis) gallops towards a lion and an eage on a distant mountain. 1702 etching with letterpress printed in black ink. Date: 1702. Dimensions: Height: 98 mm (image plate); Height: 190 mm (sheet); Width: 136 mm (image plate); Width: 145 mm (sheet). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Aesop. Collection: British Museum. De Gefopte Bedrieger (The Deceived Deceiver) (BM 1854,0513.522.36)