Verklaring van de prent: Begraafenis van de Oranje Leuz [Explanation of the Print: Funeral of the Orange Leuz]

This Dutch satirical broadside uses mock-funeral rhetoric to attack political opponents during the tumultuous 1780s. The text announces the death of the 'Orange Leuz' (Orange rabble) and celebrates their defeat, naming specific rival factions and their leaders with ridicule. Printed as explanatory letterpress accompanying a now-lost engraving, this work exemplifies the partisan graphic polemic tradition that flourished in the Dutch Golden Age and Enlightenment—a precursor to modern editorial cartooning. Like Gillray's and Rowlandson's prints, it weaponizes visual and textual mockery to mobilize public opinion, mixing scatological humor, named enemies, and apocalyptic language to frame political conflict as moral theater.