de Kleine Wetgever der Metaliken (The Little Lawgiver of the Metals)

This hand-colored etching satirizes Jewish financier Eduard Kann during Dutch monetary crisis. A crowd of gentlemen in top hats surrounds a diminished central figure, numbered references keyed to explanatory verses below. The print draws on Northern European traditions of social and political caricature—from Hogarth through Gillray and Rowlandson. The work exemplifies how caricature sheets, precursors to modern sequential art, used exaggeration, annotation, and satirical text to shape opinion on financial and social events among literate publics.