print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9631
- Title
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Object: De Regte Afbeelding der Wind Negotie Gehouden in de Straat van Quinquempoix tot Parys
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Object: Rue Quinquempoix en l'année 1720
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Series: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Description
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Dutch satire on the financial crisis of 1720 showing a street scene in the rue Quinquempoix with a crowd of men and women. In the foreground, from left to right: a lawyer sits writing, a man in a cloak holds a paper referring to the Mississippi project, a man with a crutch cries remedies for stocks holding out a beaker, a man with a walking stick is bent under a basket on his back, a man solicits a woman, a man claims that investing will send him to the galleys, a man offers shares to another who prays for relief, a man has his shoes cleaned by a shoe-black, behind him Bombario allows his humped back to be used as a desk, a drummer advertises trade for the bank, a man throws himself to the ground in despair, two guards, one with a dog at his feet holding a stick, the other a pike, arrest a man who passes something under the arm of the man with the pike to an accomplice, behind this group a man tears his hair. John Law leans out of a window on the left, and on the right other people watch from windows above shops with awnings and decorated boards; one is evidently a locksmith's shop with the sign of a key hanging outside. Lanterns, a bell and nooses hang from robes strung across the street. Engraved title below the image in a cartouche with a crowned head above and a cornucopia on either side from which coins, papers and jewellery spill. Dutch inscriptions and verse in three columns.1720
Etching
- Production date
- 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 363 millimetres
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Width: 335 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For a German version, see BM 1882-8-12-461 and the same volume print BM 2868-0808-9632..
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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 Bubble 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9631
