Bordspel over de patriotten [Board Game of the Patriots]

This Dutch satirical print presents political conflict as a parlor game, with allegorical figures, circular vignettes, and heraldic shields arranged around a central board. The composition descends from the Northern European tradition of moral and political prints—particularly the German Bilderbogen picture-sheets and 18th-century Dutch satire—that prefigured modern comic narrative. Rendered in etching or engraving, the work uses multiple scenes and symbolic costumes to mock the Patriot faction during the Dutch political upheaval of the 1780s. Like Hogarth's sequential moral narratives and Gillray's crowded political satires, this print layers social critique through visual density and grotesque characterization, establishing conventions later adopted by comic strips: numbered scenes, recurring figures, and visual mockery of recognizable social types.