April-kaart of kaartspel van Momus (April Card or Card Game of Momus)

This Dutch engraving presents fifty-four playing cards—each framing a figure from daily life—arranged in a grid format. The suits mark social ranks: hearts for nobility, diamonds for clergy, clubs for commoners, spades for peasants. Each card carries satirical text beneath. The print descends from the Northern European Bilderbogen tradition of moral instruction through sequential imagery, where engraved or etched plates allowed artists to lampoon society's vices and follies across multiple panels. Here, social types—merchants, soldiers, courtiers, servants—are lampooned through costume and posture. The format influenced later broadside satire and eventually the sequential narrative structure of comic strips, where multiple frames advance argument or comedy.