Afbeelding van een Kees, Weegluis, Avijoenvreerter (Portrait of a Patriot)

This Dutch engraving attacks a Patriot opponent through grotesque caricature—a tradition stretching from Hogarth and Gillray to German Bilderbogen sheets. The figure wears military dress while wielding weapons and a lantern, standing over a cowering victim, embodying the satirist's view of radical Patriot aggression during the Dutch political crisis of the 1780s. Such visual attack—combining caricature, allegory, and exaggerated features—fed directly into comic satire traditions and ultimately into early comic strip vocabulary, where grotesquerie and political mockery merged with mass-market printmaking.