Tobacco box 'Tax Farmers' Riot'
Also known as: Tabaksdoos 'pachtersoproer'
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1764
Tobacco box, rounded at the short ends, entirely decorated with engravings. The accompanying note (NG-KOG-1481-B) provides an explanation of the scenes. Lid: during an execution on Dam Square, the civic guard fired into the crowd.
Underside: looting of a tax farmer's house on the Singel. Back: the killing of a Swede, one of the principal instigators of the riot. On the front, a depiction of civic guardsmen firing at fleeing people. Furthermore, plant motifs and text cartouches. On the inside of the hinged lid, a label: NAA / 3160. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-KOG-1481-A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking), forging, engraving; measurements length 5 cm x width 16 cm x height 3 cm x weight 220 g.
Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking), forging, engraving
- Measurements
- length 5 cm x width 16 cm x height 3 cm x weight 220 g
- Dimensions museum
- length 5 cm x width 16 cm x height 3 cm x weight 220 g
Identification
- Original title
- Tabaksdoos 'pachtersoproer'
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-KOG-1481-A
- Museum classification
- tobacco box
Catalogue references
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