Koningin Anna plukt de Franse haan (Queen Anne Plucks the French Rooster)

This Dutch engraving celebrates Queen Anne's military victories during the War of Spanish Succession through a central allegorical scene surrounded by smaller narrative vignettes and three columns of text. Anne, enthroned beneath a radiating sun, presides while attendants pluck feathers from a rooster—symbol of France—in a visual pun on French pride and military defeat. Surrounding panels depict battles, naval combat, and diplomatic scenes rendered in the detailed linear style of northern European copper engraving. The print exemplifies the Bilderbogen tradition: dense, informative, combining satire with documentary ambition. Such sheets circulated widely across Europe, their aggressive political commentary and composite imagery establishing conventions later adopted by satirical prints and eventually sequential narrative art.