Het Paradys Verloren (Paradise Lost)

This Dutch engraving depicts the expulsion of the House of Orange from the Netherlands during the Patriot Revolution. The composition shows figures fleeing a walled estate—the Stadhouder's family cast out like Adam and Eve from Eden. The engraver employs biblical allegory to frame political upheaval as divine judgment. The print continues a Northern European tradition of satirical commentary stretching back to Cranach and Bruegel, refined through the caricature prints of the 17th–18th centuries. Rather than exaggerated physiognomy, the artist uses narrative scene and classical reference—a sophisticated method of political mockery that would influence Gillray and subsequent European print satire traditions feeding into modern editorial cartooning.