The Self-Satisfied Burgher

Category

Library Item

Item no

32985

Title

The Self-Satisfied Burgher

Description

"What does it matter if we are annexed afterwards, so long as we remain neutral now?"

"A satire on the inert Dutch bourgeois party, which was intent on shutting its eyes and keeping quiet at all costs, no matter what might be in store for the country hereafter. The framed text hanging on the wall runs: 'Candles and spectacles don't help the owl if he doesn't want to see things.'"

Artist / maker

Raemaekers, Louis

Date

1916

Size

34.4 x 27.8 cm

Type

Chromolithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Copyright

Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.