Movable print klapprent patriots 1787 | Satirical metamorphic folding print transforming a clergyman into a soldier and ultimately revealing the Devil at the gallows. [Netherlands, ca. 1787]. Spotprent op Johan Jacob le Sage ten Broek.
[Patriotten spotprent] · 1787 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)
€2,178.00 ($2,400.59 | £1,817.05 | ¥383,221)
An exceptionally rare 18th-century metamorphic print: by successively unfolding its ingenious numbered flaps, a respectable clergyman is transformed into a soldier and finally into a condemned figure beneath the gallows—while, held against the light, a huge hidden Devil dramatic…