Hansop op de Koord (The Clown on the Rope), Romeyn de Hooghe, 1701

Title page to a tract entitled "hansop op de koord", no. 4 in the series entitled "esopus in europa"; in the centre, an etching showing a fight between native americans resulting from a contest on a tight-rope (shown in the background) resulting from the discovery by the cannibals (caribs) that the tapuyans had substituted monkeys for themselves; in the foregrousn a cannibal lunges with a war-club at a tapuyan whom he grasps by the loin-cloth, while on the right another cannibal holds up a monkey by the heel; beyond, a mass of soldiers with spears, forest and mountains. 1701 etching with letterpress printed in black ink. Date: 1701. Dimensions: Height: 96 mm (image plate); Height: 190 mm (sheet); Width: 141 mm (image plate); Width: 148 mm (sheet). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Aesop. Collection: British Museum. Hansop op de Koord (The Clown on the Rope) (BM 1854,0513.522.4)