Caption
Caricature of the patriot preacher Johan Jacob le Sage ten Broek, 1785, Op den Professoraale Krygsman, cartoon, print, Caricature of the Rotterdam patriot preacher and professor Johan Jacob le Sage ten Broek, ca. 1785. Ten Broek is depicted on one half as a member of a volunteer corps in uniform with a rifle and on the other half as a preacher with a Bible in his hand. In the background, a pig is sniffing at an orange tree. On the sheet below the plate, two four-line verses., printmaker, Northern Netherlands, paper, etching, engraving, letterpress printing, engraving and letterpress, height 280 mm x width 152 mm, Person, Johan Jacob le Sage ten Broek, warfare, military affairs (citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia), functionaries and dignitaries, Protestant churches, Patriot Era (1780-1795), establishment of military training societies (1783-1786), Rotterdam, Period, An engraved image of a standing man shown from head to toe, wearing a tricorne hat with a decorative bow and a long coat over a waistcoat, holding an open book in one hand and a long musket upright in the other, with one leg and shoe dark and the other light; behind him to one side are buildings with windows and pitched roofs and to the other side a row of trees and a grazing animal near a bucket, with a scroll and a separate sheet lying on the ground in the foreground.
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