Aan den Meester Tonge-Slyper.

Engraving, 19,5 x 27 cm (plate), 40,8 x 31,5 cm (sheet), laid paper with Dutch watermark of ca. 1665 (foolscap, Heawood: 1997), unsigned (foxed, edges sl. frayed).

The Tongue Grinders was a Dutch satirical print on King Jacob II and the Glorious Revolution. In a workshop tongues which have turned black and thick from lying are now being ground up. At the right a basket with tongues has just arrived from London and includes those of the King and Friar Peters (Edward Petre). The engraving is accompanied by a Dutch poem in three columns and is signed with a comical address "à Langres chez Tongelel".
Ref. New Hollstein (Van Mander), 106:2. - Muller I:2774.