Het Vermakelijk Academiesch Bullespel (The Amusing Academic Ball Game)

This wood-engraved satirical print, organized as a numbered game board, depicts student life at a Dutch university through thirty interconnected scenes of rowdy behavior, pranks, and social transgression. The central image shows a chaotic street scene with students, horses, and overturned carts. Arranged around it are vignettes of drunkenness, flirtation, gambling, and mock-heroic combat—each numbered square advancing a narrative of youthful excess and disorder. Belonging to the German *Bilderbogen* tradition of popular satirical broadsheets, this print participates in a long lineage of social caricature descending from Hogarth and Rowlandson. The dense, gestural linework and crowded composition mock academic pretension while celebrating undergraduate transgression as folk entertainment for mass consumption.