12e Tribulation (Vander Snouff en ribotte)

This hand-colored etching depicts a domestic scene of ridicule and chaos. A man in fashionable dress strikes an exaggerated pose while gesturing wildly at seated figures, including a woman in working clothes. A well-dressed woman observes from a doorway. The print belongs to the European satirical tradition descending from Hogarth and Gillray—using distorted anatomy, theatrical gesture, and household disorder to mock social types. The inscription references intoxication ("en ribotte"). Such prints, distributed as individual sheets and collected in series, established visual codes of caricature—elongated limbs, ridiculous comportment, class markers—that would directly influence the sequential narrative and character exaggeration central to later comic strips and comic books. The work reflects early-19th-century anxieties about masculine behavior and domestic propriety through grotesque humor.