The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708
Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Published on 1. October 2025
448 pages
978-1-040-78269-9 (ISBN)
Description
Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and king William III. This study, the first book-length biography of de Hooghe, narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism. Traditionally regarded as a godless rogue, and more recently as an exponent of the Radical Enlightenment, de Hooghe emerges in this study as a successful entrepreneur, a social climber, and an Orangist spin doctor. A study in seventeenth-century political culture and patronage, focusing on spin and slander, this book explores how artists, politicians, and hacks employed literature and the visual arts in political discourse, and tried to capture their readership with satire, mockery, fun, and laughter.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
23,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78269-9 (9781040782699)
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Henk van Nierop
The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708
Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Book
04/2019
Amsterdam University Press
€73.50
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Henk van Nierop
The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708
Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Book
09/2018
Amsterdam University Press
€167.50
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Henk van Nierop is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has widely published on the Dutch Revolt and the Dutch Golden Age. He is the author of The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650 (1993) and Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt (2009).
Content
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Note on Usage, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Under the Spire of Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerk, 2. Ingenious Inventions and Rich Designs Setting Up, 3. Patriotic Prints Year of Disaster, 4. A Wandering Whore and a Talking Dog The Wandering Whore, 5. A Fresh Start Romeyn Evicted?, 6. The Prince Abandoned and Regained The Great Turkish War, 7. The Harlequin Prints Lampooning the Sun King, 8. Lampooning the Regents The Cows, the Herdsman, and the Wolf, 9. The Pamphlet War Triplet of Rogues, 10. Memorandum of Rights Legal Action, 11. Honour Defended The Chief Sheriff Fooled, 12. Serving the Stadtholder The Desolate End of Ericus Walten, 13. Composing Most Pompously Intendent of the King's Buildings, 14. Final Years Masterless Man, Appendix, Index
