Den Engelsman op zyn Uiterste (The Englishman at his Extremity)

This Dutch satirical etching depicts an Englishman stripped, beaten, and humiliated by French and Dutch soldiers during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. The engraving combines text in Dutch and French, identifying it as propaganda aimed at both audiences. The print exemplifies 18th-century political satire's crude visual language—exaggerated features, violent action, numbered explanatory captions—devices inherited from Hogarth and developed by Gillray and Rowlandson. Such broadsheets circulated widely as popular commentary on war and national rivalry, foreshadowing how comics would use sequential imagery and caricature for political messaging.