Het Comité van Uitgewekenen (The Committee of Exiles)

This etching depicts a gathering of Dutch political exiles during the French Revolutionary period, rendered in the satirical tradition of 18th-century print culture. The scene shows figures in contemporary dress assembled before what appears to be an administrative structure, with labels identifying key players. The artist employs the caricaturist's exaggerated physiognomy and costume detail to mock both the exiles' pretensions and their political irrelevance. The work descends from the Northern European satirical print tradition—the German Bilderbogen and Dutch broadsheets—which influenced later masters like Gillray and Daumier.