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[Allegory of a love affair.] Tribunal injurie & Armoris.De beschuldinge en klachten van Juffr. Elizabeth Stevenon, gedaen als aenklaegster van der Heer Gabriel Lalande.
[by Crispijn de Passe.]
[n.d., 1661.]
Rare broadsheet with engraving, 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"), set in letterpress, sheet 500 x 285mm (19¾ x 11¼"). Sheet with loss at bottom, not affecting text.
A pair of former lovers in a court case presided over by the Titaness Thenis, with Venus acting for the complainant. Underneath is an extensive satirical verse. A satire on the scandalous events following the end of the love affair between Gabriel Lalande, a French merchant, and Elizabeth Lestevenon, a young woman from a rich Dutch mercantile family. After an intimate relationship of several months, Elizabeth announced she was going to marry someone else. In indignation Lalande started spreading rumours about their affair, including their sexual activity. Lestevenson's family appealed to the Amsterdam Magistrates, who jailed Lalande for seventy days, but this did not stop the gossip. Such was the scandal that at the end of 1661 the printer Johannes van den Bergh collected many of the broadsheets and published a collection, 'The Sweet Courtship of Mr Gabriel de Lalande, or the fallen rose of Miss Elizabeth Lestevenon'.
Arthur der Weduwen: Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, p.154.
[Ref: 56035] £420.00
[n.d., 1661.]
Rare broadsheet with engraving, 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"), set in letterpress, sheet 500 x 285mm (19¾ x 11¼"). Sheet with loss at bottom, not affecting text.
A pair of former lovers in a court case presided over by the Titaness Thenis, with Venus acting for the complainant. Underneath is an extensive satirical verse. A satire on the scandalous events following the end of the love affair between Gabriel Lalande, a French merchant, and Elizabeth Lestevenon, a young woman from a rich Dutch mercantile family. After an intimate relationship of several months, Elizabeth announced she was going to marry someone else. In indignation Lalande started spreading rumours about their affair, including their sexual activity. Lestevenson's family appealed to the Amsterdam Magistrates, who jailed Lalande for seventy days, but this did not stop the gossip. Such was the scandal that at the end of 1661 the printer Johannes van den Bergh collected many of the broadsheets and published a collection, 'The Sweet Courtship of Mr Gabriel de Lalande, or the fallen rose of Miss Elizabeth Lestevenon'.
Arthur der Weduwen: Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, p.154.
[Ref: 56035] £420.00