Berigt van Intekening [Notice of Subscription]

This Dutch engraved broadside announces a medallion commemorating the return of Amsterdam patriots from Utrecht during the political upheavals of the 1780s. Two circular vignettes show the medal's obverse and reverse, rendered in the fine-line engraving technique typical of commemorative prints. The surrounding text mixes verse satire with prose explanation, a format descended from the Northern European *Bilderbogen* tradition—narrative picture-sheets that combined visual and textual commentary on current events. Here, popular political sentiment finds expression through the populist medium of the broadside, which democratized satirical commentary beyond the reach of expensive bound prints. The work exemplifies how late-eighteenth-century Dutch printmakers deployed medal imagery and subscription mechanics to mobilize public opinion around partisan causes, prefiguring the role mass-produced imagery would play in nineteenth-century political culture.