print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9633
- Title
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Object: Bombario, o dood! Te schendig in de nood
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Series: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Description
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Dutch satire on the financial crisis of 1720. The interior of a palace, on the right Time draws back a curtain to reveal the figure of Justice seated on a throne approached by Mercury who gestures to figures in the foreground. On the right, a smiling dwarf dressed in black holds a net bag from which coins fall. Beside him, Death, a skeleton with a scythe, leads Bombario dressed as a clown having dropped his tray of shares. He is followed by a Company Director urged forward by two satyrs armed with pikes. Behind them investors, including a sailor who has dropped a keg, and satyrs cause uproar. In the distance through an archway is a a view of the road to Vianen with a body lying on the ground beside a pile of barrels, people begging at the door of a large house, a man hanging from scaffolding and a man attacking another with a sword. Beneath the main image are two vignettes showing, on the left, Democritus, as a child in a fool's cap, smiling and pointing towards a globe marked with the names of the investment companies from which a man's head emerges, and, on the right, Heraclitus, as a weeping child, holding the globe tipped on to its side, his foot resting on ledgers; with two columns of verse in Dutch between, and title in Dutch above. 1720
Etching
- Production date
- 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 266 millimetres
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Width: 276 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Democritus and Heraclitus were often depicted as the laughing and weeping philosophers respectively, here represented by boys. The inscription Vianen refers to the saying 'de verliezers worden gezonden naar Vianen en Kuilenburg' or 'naar Vianen en Kuilenburg reizen' (see Comment to 1868,0808.9608)
For a later impression of this plate with many changes to the design, see the same volume BM 1868-0808-9634.
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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
- 1868,0808.9633