Satirische verordening op de aanslag van Amsterdamse losbollen op een Fries turfschip

This Dutch broadside uses typography and dense letterpress text to mock a criminal incident involving Amsterdam dock workers and a Frisian ship. Rather than illustration, the satire relies on formal proclamation rhetoric—the mock-official register and legal language—to ridicule both the perpetrators and civic authority. The format descends from the Northern European tradition of news-broadside satire, where woodcut or type-based compositions reached a popular audience with topical humor. By adopting the language of municipal decree, the printer transforms scandal into comedy through formal parody, a technique that anticipates the visual gags and political mockery of later comic prints and caricature tradition.