An etching of eleven scenes relating to James II's flight into exile. The top register illustrates the escape of Mary of Modena and the infant Prince of Wales, assisted by Father Petre, the queen's Jesuit confessor. James's flight is told in the remaining sections, with the central scene showing the deposed king greeted by his cousin, Louis XIV, at the French court at St-Germain-en-Laye. Surmounting these scenes is the victorious profile of William III within a laurel wreath, surrounded by royal regalia. His bust is flanked by the personifications of Justice and Vengeance, casting out the army of James II under the phrase 'NO MONARCHY', and Truth and Eternity defending William from Catholic influences in the form of two blindfolded men, who drop a crucifix, a rosary and a reliquary, accompanied by 'NO POPERY'. With inscriptions in English and Latin. With titles in Dutch, both for the entire print and below individual scenes.

The celebrated etcher, Romeyn de Hooghe, was employed to promote the position of William of Orange, with much of his output devoted to anti-French and anti-Catholic prints emanating from the Dutch wars with the French in 1672. He turned his attention to James following his accession, especially after the birth of his son and heir in 1688, and his prints were surreptitiously exported from the United Provinces to London for the English market, to fill the void resulting from domestic censorship. James was well aware of William's use of propaganda, describing him in a letter to Parliament of 2 February 1689 as 'one who by all arts hath taken such pains to make me appear as black as hell to my own people as well as to the world besides'.

Text adapted from Charles II: Art & Power, London, 2017