print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3488
- Title
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Object: Veritable Portrait du tres fameux Seigneur messire Quinquenpoix
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Object: No.1 Of Stront Of Koning
- Description
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Image from a broadside satirising John Law and his investments schemes, with engraved Dutch title and inscriptions, numbering 1-6, and, printed from a separate plate, with engraved French title, verses and legend in three columns. (n.p.: [1720]): an etching with some engraving showing in the centre an oval portrait of Law facing to the right, holding a purse; underneath his image a cauldron with money and shares thrown in by various people, allegorical and mythological figures.
- Production date
- 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 155 millimetres (image)
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Height: 225 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 104 millimetres (image)
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Width: 319 millimetres (printed area)
- Curator's comments
- John Law is here referred to as 'M. Quinquenpoix', alluding to the location of the headquarter of 'Compagnie des Indes' in rue Quinquempoix, Paris
For another impression of his print, see "Het Groote Tafereel Der Dwaasheid", vol. I, BM 1868-8-8-9665, location 298.c.4. For another version with an earlier state of the same plate, and with Dutch verses, see "Het Groote Tafereel...", vol. I, BM 1868-8-8-9664, and BM 1858-2-13-86. For a French, reversed copy, see BM 1866-4-7-266.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: South Sea Bubble 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3488
