62 - (Dusart, C.).

(Dusart, C.). Renversement de la morale chretienne par les desordres du Monachisme... Omstootinge der Christelyke Zeden... 2 parts in 1 vol. Amsterdam (after 1693). Small 4°. With folded, etched Frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, 50 engraved plates, as well as 1 additional plate (probably not part of the work). 2 leaves, XIX, 104, 7 pp. Contemporary half-leather binding (somewhat rubbed and repaired). Cohen/Ricci 870. Landwehr, de Hooghe 77. Hollstein VII, 376–400 (J. Gole). – Only edition, presumably organized by French religious refugees following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. A series of 50 medallion portraits of depraved monks. The 25 plates of the first part are attributed by J. Gole to drawings by C. Dusart; those of the second part remain anonymous and differ slightly in style. Drunkenness, gluttony, bigotry, lust, madness, laziness, malice, hypocrisy, envy, cruelty, and crime are caricatured; the effect of the grotesquely distorted faces is heightened by the combination of ecclesiastical and carnivalesque attributes. Each of the figures depicted has a French quatrain placed in their mouth at the bottom of the plate. The first part is accompanied by extensive bilingual printed text, while the second part is accompanied only by Dutch translations of the self-commentaries. The (unsigned) frontispiece by de Hooghe depicts Jesus being tortured by the clergy, whose blood turns into coins. The preface cites Gavin’s “Histoire des Tromperies... de l’Eglise Romaine,” Rotterdam 1693, as the source and thus the terminus post quem. - Some water stains along the edges.