Aanneming der Begroting van Koloniën (Acceptance of the Colonial Budget)

This wood engraving mocks a Dutch minister's colonial policy through burlesque physicality. A bare-legged figure strains to hoist two enormous oars labeled "1e KAMER" and "2e KAMER"—the upper and lower houses of parliament—a visual pun on legislative struggle over budgetary control. The print descends from Gillray and Rowlandson's tradition of bodily exaggeration to expose political absurdity. Such imagery fed directly into the emerging vocabulary of comic periodicals and visual satire that would evolve into modern cartooning.