Man wordt een vertrek uit gejaagd met een stok 1787

Reinier Vinkeles made this etching, titled "Man wordt een vertrek uit gejaagd met een stok" - "A Man is Chased Out of a Room with a Stick" - using the labor-intensive technique of etching, a printmaking process involving the use of acid to create the image on a metal plate. The scene's social context emerges from the print’s sharp lines: a powdered lady, a sword-wielding gentleman, and a man being forcefully ejected. The very precision of the etching emphasizes the social dynamics at play. The etching process, with its reliance on skilled labor and painstaking methodology, mirrors the societal structures of the time. Each line, each shadow, is a testament to the hand of the artist, a tangible reminder of the labor involved. Vinkeles’s work bridges the gap between craft and fine art, inviting us to see the social narrative embedded within the materials and processes of its making.