For the present I must pass over two elaborate broadsides engraved by Jean Bollard, and entitled respectively “Aan den Experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith” (To the Expert Dutch Head-Smith), and “Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper” (To the Master Tongue-Grinder). These, as we shall see later, after doing their work against James II. and the Old Pretender, were seized upon many years afterwards by the piratical publisher of a remarkable Jansenist tract, called “Roma Perturbata, Ofte’t Beroerde Romen, etc.,” and adapted to the uses of the anti-Jesuit propagandum, in the same way as “L’Europe Alarmée pour le Fils d’un Meunier,” described above, was adapted after twenty-five years of idleness as a satire upon the Peace of Utrecht. {217}
It was this same piratical tractarian who seized upon the elaborate plate which I am here reproducing, divorced it from its letterpress, cut the plate down to the size of his tract, and appropriated it in its second state to the purposes of “Roma Perturba ta.”
In its first state, which I give here, together with its accompanying letterpress, the line of publication runs: “Gisling, Geneve, exc.” and the title:
Het beest van Babel is aan’t vluesten Die Godsdienst heeft niet méer te duckten.
(The beast of Babel is flying, Religion has nothing more to fear.)
Het beest van Babel, etc. (The plate in its first state.)
Het beest van Babel, etc. (The plate in its first state.)
