Big tricks
Poster shows caricature of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a helmet with face shield and topped with a townscape of five multi-storied buildings. She is shown with vampire fangs biting a 1980 Dutch guilder coin that is marked with a value of millions. The coin image is also stamped with a Dutch phrase meaning police state. In the center of the coin is a shield topped with a royal crown below which stands a lion also wearing a helmet and face shield. The lion is holding two unidentified objects in its front paws. At the time of the queen's 1980 investiture, there were riots due to poor housing conditions and an atmosphere of anti-monarchism because Beatrix had married a German noble who had been in the Hitler Youth.
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- In Collections
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Leftist Political Posters Collection
- Copyright Status
- No Known Copyright
- Date
- 1980
- Subjects
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Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, 1938-
Monarchy
Political posters, Dutch
Politics and government
History
Netherlands
- Material Type
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Posters
Political posters
- Language
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English
Dutch
- Extent
- 1 poster
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b13534538
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