Romeyn de Hooghe Gallery

Brazilian Sugar Factory

Sugar cane is processed at a factory in Brazil, circa 1700. An illustration from Les Indes Orientales et Occidentales, et Autres Lieux by Romeyn de Hooghe. After the canes (1) are cut (2), they are transported by oxcart (3) to the mill for grinding (4). They are then crushed by a watermill (5) before being dried in an oven (6), crushed again by ox-power (7), transported across the mountains (8), refined (9) and cooked in vats (10). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Title page pamphlet Talk Valies Myter Bonnet

Title page for the pamphlet: Talk between the Valies, the Myter, and the Bonnet, 1701 Talk between the Valies, and the Bonnet (title on object) Esopus in Europe (series title), Drum with a miter and bishop's staff, church books with a Jesuit cap and a kind of suitcase from which bubbles rise. Cartoon on the scarcity of money in France and the varied role of Jozef Klemens, the Elector of Cologne, as bishop and general. Title is on separate text sheet., Romeyn de Hooghe, Netherlands, 1701, paper, engraving, h 100 mm ? w 135 mm h 96 mm ? w 126 mm

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Legend presenting history works German Order

Legend for presenting history and works of the German Order, weapons of the commander of Alden Biesen and two orderidders Glorification of the German Order, in particular of the land commander Alden Biesen (series title), A legend in Latin at a presentation of the history and works of the German Order, flanked by a knight (personification of the German Order) and a woman (personification of the Church). Among them is the coat of arms of the land commander of Alden Biesen (Hendrik van Wassenaer), flanked by that of equestrian chief / order leader Johann Hermann baron Spies von Bullesheim, and that of sub-tribune / order leader Damian Hugo, baron von Schonborn in Reichelsberg. This print is part of an extensive presentation, composed of 20 separate plates, of the history and works of the German Order (center) surrounded by representations of the Alden Biesen land commandery (below) and the associated command orders (left and right), military orders, eg: Knights Templars, Knights of Malta, Teutonic Knights, Roman Catholic church, armorial bearing, heraldry, the Church personified, Ecclesia, usually with chalice and banner, the Christian knight, Miles Christianus, Hendrik van Wassenaer, Johann Hermann baron Spies von Bullesheim, Damian Hugo Philipp (count of Schonborn and Reichelsberg), Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem, 1700, paper, engraving, h 344 mm ? w 510 mm

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