Op d'Afbeelding van Barent van Galen, Bisschop van Munster

This Dutch etching lampoons Christoph Bernhard van Galen, the warlike Prince-Bishop of Münster, depicted as a standing warrior-cleric wielding sword and scales. The satirical text below catalogs his military and administrative officials—Kruyger, Boatswain, Rope-maker, Bond-breaker—mocking his mercenary forces and brutal reign. An early example of the Northern European picture-sheet tradition, this print combines engraved portraiture with pointed verbal satire to attack both clerical ambition and military aggression. The composition descends from sixteenth-century Reformation polemic and anticipates the caricature broadsides of Hogarth and his successors, establishing strategies of visual ridicule that would evolve into modern comic satire.