Krantenartikel uit de Provinciale Noordbrabantsche & 's Hertogenbossche Courant van 23 november 1929 over de Slag van Lekkerbeetje in 1600 1929

This anonymous newspaper article from 1929 at the Rijksmuseum, is made with ink on paper. It depicts the Battle of Lekkerbeetje from 1600. The image at the bottom is an etching or engraving made up of thousands of tiny lines that together describe a scene of chaos and movement. The texture of the paper, its yellowed tone, creates a feeling of age and history. If you look closely at the battle scene, you can see how the artist used these tiny lines to create a sense of depth and atmosphere, the mass of soldiers in the foreground with a lighter, less defined landscape in the distance. This reminds me of how some painters like to build up layers of paint to create texture and depth, a process of adding and subtracting, revealing and concealing. The choice of monochrome is interesting, because it emphasizes the starkness and drama of the scene. It makes me think of Francisco Goya's etchings "The Disasters of War," which also use stark black and white imagery to depict the horrors of conflict. Like Goya, the artist here is using the print medium to create a powerful and lasting statement about war.