Broadsheet on the Funeral of Dominie Johannes van de Velde

This Dutch broadsheet satirizes the elaborate funeral rites of a Protestant minister, using dense letterpress typography and polemical text to mock ecclesiastical ceremony. The format—combining image and explanatory text—belongs to the tradition of popular print satire that flourished in the Netherlands during religious and political conflict. Such sheets circulated widely among literate urban audiences, anticipating the graphic-verbal hybrids of 18th-century caricature by Hogarth and Gillray. Here, doctrinal dispute and personal attack merge through typography itself: the layered columns of argument and accusation create visual chaos that mirrors the chaos of theological controversy. This merging of text and image for satirical effect established conventions later adopted by pictorial caricaturists and eventually comic strips.