End Good, Al Good

This Dutch wood engraving satirizes the abolition of the civic militia (schutterij). A classical female figure—Britannia-like, bearing sword and shield—carries away a uniformed militiaman as armed soldiers parade in the background. The composition invokes centuries of European print satire from Hogarth through Daumier: allegorical figures, dense background crowds, and sharp social commentary rendered in fine linear detail. Published in the *Nederlandsche Spectator*, this image represents the persistence of political caricature and visual argument in early 20th-century Dutch journalism, a tradition that would seed modern comic art's inheritance of sequential narrative, exaggeration for effect, and topical urgency.