- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9610
- Title
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Object: Tytel-Print der Actie-Kraam
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Object: Voor-Hof van Quinquenpoix
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Series: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Description
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Satire on the financial crisis of 1720. A smaller print within a larger one in the form of a frame. The inner print, lettered "P.V.D. Berge in fecit", shows John Law kneeling before a reclining woman, identified as Deception, watched by a cupid standing nearby holding a bow; the scene is surrounded by a frame, within the smaller print, with the title on a ribbon at the top, surmounting an eye at which cupids, one on either side, fire arrows which appear to ricochet; below the cupids smoke rises from censers against which rest quivers with more arrows; below are two lines of verse referring to Law. The frame on the larger print consists of a wreath with four cartouches: at the top, False Fortune giving bags of wind to to four men who grovel at her feet; on the right, a man seated on the ground with two men flying towards him, one blowing a horn; at the bottom, a naked figure draped with fish and wearing a mural crown rising from the sea, two ships in the background; on the left, an American Indian, representing the Mississippi Company, with a crocodile or alligator. The wreath is decorated with a tobacco barrel and rolls, two bags from which smoke pours, a cross-staff, a mariner's compass, an aritificial horizon, a globe, a pomegranate, papers, an artist's palette, a pair of scissors, rolls of fabric, books, a crate lettered, "N.S.", combs or paper crowns, and a bunch of root vegetables. Below, on the left, Mercury sits on a crate lettered, "NO. A55", and on the right, Neptune, rests beside a stream of water full of fish; between this pair is a smaller scene viewed between curtains drawn apart to reveal a man seated at a table counting coins. Below, etched verses in Dutch in two columns. 1720
Etching
- Production date
- 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 382 millimetres
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Width: 242 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a collection of prints bound together in two volumes c.1721 known as 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid'; for more information, see 1868,0808.9602.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Financial Bubbles 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9610
