End Good, Al Good

This Dutch wood engraving satirizes the abolition of the civic militia (schutterij). A classical female figure—Britannia-like, bearing sword and shield—carries away a uniformed militiaman as armed soldiers parade in the background. The composition invokes centuries of European print satire from Hogarth through Daumier: allegorical figures, dense background crowds, and sharp social commentary rendered in fine linear detail. Published in the Nederlandsche Spectator, this image represents the persistence of political caricature and visual argument in early 20th-century Dutch journalism, a tradition that would seed modern comic art's inheritance of sequential narrative, exaggeration for effect, and topical urgency.