Het Constitutie Spel (The Constitution Game)

This Dutch engraved game board satirizes political and religious conflict through an oval race-track layout numbered with Roman numerals. Players advance through illustrated squares depicting constitutional disputes, clerical authority, and civic virtue—each image a moral or political lesson. The surrounding text columns offer commentary and rules. Such prints descend from Hogarth's narrative sequences and prefigure the political broadsheets of Gillray and Rowlandson. The format—instruction combined with visual propaganda—became a staple of European popular prints, teaching audiences through humor and allegory. This blend of game, sermon, and visual argument established the template for later comic sequences: sequential images advancing a satirical argument through type, caricature, and accumulated detail.