A Single School Escorts the Three Limburg Gentlemen

This Dutch wood engraving satirizes political opposition in the First Chamber over a Limburg education dispute. Two uniformed officials escort three seated gentlemen—caricatured with exaggerated features typical of 19th-century satirical prints—while schoolboys process in the background. The composition employs the visual rhetoric of Gillray and Rowlandson: hierarchical arrangement, physiognomic distortion, and symbolic detail to mock political posturing. Published in In de 1e Kamer, this print descends from the long European tradition of pictorial satire weaponizing caricature against public figures. The degrading ethnic and physiognomic caricature reflects the period's casual prejudices, standard to popular prints of its era.