- Museum number
- 1858,0213.50-73
- Title
- Series: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Description
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"Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid [The Great Mirror of Folly], Vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX. Zynde een Verzameling van alle de Conditien en Projecten Van de opgeregte Compagnien van Assurantie, Navigatie, Commercie, &c. in Nederland, zo wel die in gebruik zyn gebragt, als die door de H. Staten van eenige Provintien zyn verworpen: Als meede Konst-Plaaten, Comedien en Gedigten, Door verscheide Lief hebbers uytgegeeven, tot beschimpinge deezer verfoeijelyke en bedrieglyke Handel, waar door in dit Jaar, verscheide Familien en Persoonen van Hooge en Lage stand zyn geruineerd, en in haar middelen verdorven, en de opregte Negotie gestremt, zo in V conrankryk, Engeland als Nederland" 1720; containing 24 prints folded and bound in at the back of the volume, including engraved maps, satires, and broadsides, all relating to the global financial bubble of 1720, bound together with letterpress titlepage and collection of texts on the same subject. (For a list of the prints, see curator's comment).
Etchings and engravings
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres (size of largest print when unfolded)
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Height: 415 millimetres (volume size)
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Width: 270 millimetres
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Width: 560 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The first 49 prints in this volume (1858,0213.1 to 49) have been removed and placed in the Satires series. They are catalogued individually.
The 24 prints remaining in this volume are as follows:
1) Map: "Nieuwe en Nette Aftekening van de Door Gravinge die er staat te Gegschieden beginnende van de Stadt Utrecht tot aan Spakenborg in de Zuyder Zee met des zelfs Afbakinge &c" (Amsterdam, Wed. Ioachim Ottens) (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9617).
2) Broadside showing pediment with four views and allegorical scenes, with engraved verses below: "Op en Ondergang der Actieonisten; Het Thuilleriece Hof; Quinquempox" (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9618).
3) Satirical print with scenes in the manner of the Netherlandish proverbs: "By Veele Zit de Kei in't Hooft Om Dat Men in de Wind Gelooft" (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9621).
4) Broadside with allegorical scene showing Fortune and the chariot of Folly, with engraved verses in French and Dutch below: "Monument consacré a la Posterité de la Folie incroyable de la XX. Année du XVIII. siecle / Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der Dwaasheid van het XX. Jaar der XVIII. Eeuw" (For further impressions, see 1868,0808.9635-7; 1917,1208.1528; 1948,0315.12.38; 1871,1209.982).
5) Broadside with allegorical satire (in two fragments) showing a female figure of Greed and Consumption straddling a barrel, with engraved verses below: " (For other impressions, see 1907,0117.2 and 1868,0808.9646)
6) Broadside with Princess Quincampoix, Bombario and other players on a stage, and letterpress verses below "Schyn Bedriegt". (For further impressions, see 1868,0808.9655; 1907,0117.3).
7) Broadside with large scene of Harlequin riding a horse-drawn chariot distributing papers to a crowd: "De Vervallen Actionisten, Hersteld, Door den Triompheerden Arlequin" (For further impressions, see 1868,0808.9657 and 1907,0117.4).
8) Broadside with scene showing Harlequein and other figures at a customs gate, with a Devil-like 'Sovereine Derecteur' under a tent at left, engraved verses below: "De Viaantsche Tol-Poort voor d'Actionisten komende uyt alle Steeden" (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9659).
9) Broadside with scene of a jester driving a coach full of five ruined investors and dealers, with Bombario at the rear: "De Malle Actionisten Naar Vianen of't Peperland" (For further impressions, see 1868,0808.9662 and 1907,0117.6).
10) Broadside claiming that when economy and trade are out of control, disaster follows, printed with letterpress text: "Het hobbelend Actiescheepje van Madame Compagnie en Monsieur Bubbels" (For further impressions, see 1868,0808.9667 and 1907,0117.7). [Related in form to nos. 12, 13, & 14 in this list].
11) Broadside with allegorical satire showing Apollo, Hercules and Bombario and ruined investors: "Vonnis van Apol over de Bubbels" (For other impressions, see 1868,0808.9669; 1868,0808.9670; and 1907,0117.8).
12) Broadside claiming that excessive speculation on the stock market destroys the economy, with letterpress verses: "Het uitgeteerde en stervende actie boomtje" (Another impression is 1907,0117.9).
13) Broadside printed with letterpress text and etching showing cupid with torch hunting a lion and unicorn: "De Bubbel Jonge op de Jagt" (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9673).
14) Broadside claiming that forgetting is the best cure for the trauma of financial ruination, printed with letterpress verses and etched vignette showing putto at a fountain: "Bronwater of geneesmiddel voor de Zieke Actionisten" (Further impressions are 1868,0808.9674 and 1907,0117.11).
15) Broadside showing an investor eating carrots and riding on a pig "De Kornet van Vuil gewin of Wortel en Besse Postiljon op zyn mager, doch niewlyks gemest Varken uitschreewende De Kompany is vol." (For other impressions, see 1868,0808.9677 and 1907,0117.12).
16) Broadside with a Harlequin Aesop pointing to a group of monkeys eating cabbages: "De Lachende Ezopus op het koolmaal, gehouden ter afscheyd van de Actieapen" (Another impression is 1868,0808.9678).
17) Broadside printed with letterpress verses and etching showing Harlequin and Bombario watching Mercury, representing commerce, being directed by the Devil: "Harlekin en Bombario in den Rouw" (For further impressions, see 1868,0808.9679 and 1907,0117.13)
18) Broadside showing dissection of the body of the 'Wind Trade' in a wooded landscape with blindfolded man, monkeys, the Devil and other figures: "Anatomie der Wind-Negotie, of Bombario voor den Drommel" (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9687).
19) Broadside printed with satirical verses in letterpress, and central etching showing man and woman pointing to birds devouring a mouse, with eagle pierced by a stork's beak above: "De Stropende Actie-Valk om Hals, En't Bubbel-Rotje onder de klaauwen van den Uil" (For other impressions, see 1868,0808.9684 and 1907,0117.15).
20) Portrait of John Law in a roundel lettered as follows: "Mre Jean Law. Con.er du Roy en Tous ses Con.ils Controleur Gnal des Finances en 1720" (H. D. let fec.) (For another impression/alternative states, see Bb,15.436 and P,8.268.)
21) Broadside with a map of the Netherlands in the shape of a jester's head: "Afbeeldinge van't zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks-Kop." (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9690).
22) Broadside showing winged figure with caduceus and trumpet in a boat crowning a mermaid with wreath of fish: "De Meerman van't Noorder Gewest als Opper Directeur der Zee-plaat verkruyers van het verkeerde Pampus beslaande de Achterhoede van het Papiere Actie -- Schouburgs-regiment" (For another impression, see 1868,0808.9691).
23) Broadside with four outer scenes warning against earthly pleasure, and a large oval central scene showing kings, the Pope etc. surrounding a burning globe: "Des Kladpapieren Waerelds vuur in as verkeerd" (For other impressions, see 1907,0117.17 and 1868,0808.9695).
24) Large broadside satirising tulip mania, showing a fool's cap gaping like an enormous mouth with financiers within, surrounded by various peasant workers: "Floraes Gecks-Kap" (H. Focken excu.) (Further impressions are 1849,1208.350; 1907,0117.19; 1871,1209.4796; and 1868,0808.9709).
Another group of printed material relating to the financial bubble of 1720, bound in two volumes under the same title--"Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid"--is kept at 298.c.4-5. For comment, see 1868,0808.9602 and the monograph, 'The Great Mirror of Folly', ed. W.N.Goetzmann et al. Yale 2013.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: South Sea Bubble 1720
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Associated Event: Mississippi Bubble 1720
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Associated Event: Tulip Mania 1637
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0213.50-73
