Pasquin de Post-Ryder, in de Wieg en Marforio op den blinden Ezel

This Dutch etching mocks French military defeat through the allegorical figures of Pasquin and Marforio—stock characters from Roman satirical tradition—who ride a blind horse-drawn cart toward disaster. The blind horse represents foolish leadership; the cart carries heraldic emblems and military insignia toppling into chaos. Printed as a broadside with accompanying verse in Dutch and French, the work exemplifies the popular *spotprent* (satirical print) tradition of the Low Countries during the War of Spanish Succession. Such images—combining caricature, allegory, and vernacular text—reached wide audiences and established visual conventions later inherited by 19th-century satirists like Gillray and Daumier, whose work directly influenced modern comic art and cartooning.