Author: TROMP.- TERINCK, J.- Lijkdicht.- 1653.-
Title: Tranen. / Gestort over het droevig overlyden van den Manhafte en Godsalige Zee-heldt, / Marten Harpertsz Tromp, /Christelijck in den Heer ontslapen, / den 10 Augustus1653./
Description: Amsterdam, Voor Zacharias Webber, Boeck-verkooper in de Huys-zitten-steeg, in de Hebreeusche Bybel, 1653. Folio. Meas. appr. 34 x 43cm. Evidence of multiple folds. [2 horizontal, 2 vertical]. Possibly the sheet was part of or inserted in an 8vo or small 4to book. A small tear to left center, just below woodcut initial, w. loss of a few letters. Numeral '154' in ink top righthand corner. Lefthand blank margin a little creased, crumpled. Upper margin a bit short, w. a few chips, but no loss. Verso w. a series of letters of the alphabet in contemp. ink. Numerous funeral orations, eulogies and funeral poems were published after the death of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp in the battle at Scheveningen, August 10 1653. These original plano sheets belong to the rare Tromp ephemera. Among the poets known to have dedicated a poem to Tromp's life and herioc deeds, we find D. Questiers, ISVC [J. Six van Chandelier], P. Dubbels, Daniel Jonktys, T. Dodeur, J. Terinck, Vondel. Of the appr. 20-23 plano sheets appearing shortly after the death of Tromp, only single copies seem to have survived at Leiden University Library and Wolffenbüttel.

Keywords: funerary occasional poetry