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Protestants

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  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
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    Bellerophon slaying the Chimera; representing the defeat of heresy (Protestantism) in Belgium by Ferdinand of Spain. Etching by T. van Thulden, c. 1640, after P.P. Rubens, 1635.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Date: 1635 | Reference: 27226i
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    Jansenism is weighed in a balance against Roman Catholicism. Etching attributed to Carel Allard, 1705.

    | Date: [1705] | Reference: 2141442i
    Part of: Lust-hof van Momus.
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    The Catholic powers gather around the infant James Francis Edward Stuart. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688, with letterpress.

    Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708. | Date: [1688] | Reference: 2136644i
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    The narrow way to Heaven and the broad way to Hell and Purgatory, representing the contrasting fates of Jansenists and Roman Catholics as attributed to the Jansenist-sympathizer Pieter Codde. Etching attributed to Carel Allard, 1705.

    | Date: [1705] | Reference: 2139935i
    Part of: Lust-hof van Momus.
    • Pictures

    King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.

    Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708. | Date: 1689 | Reference: 17522i
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