print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9692
- Title
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Object: Missisippi
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Object: 't Wydbefaamde Goudland door de inbeelding der Windnegotie
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Series: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Description
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Satire on the financial crisis in 1720. In the centre a fanciful view of the Mississippi valley where palm and fir trees grow with two Native Americans addressed by a group of Europeans including a man holding a parrot, another holding a gun, and another offering food apparently in exchange for the tobacco in barrels resting nearby; a monk, evidently intended as the ghost of Father Louis Hennepin, stands beside them; in the distance Native Americans hunt deer; an alligator's head appears in the foreground and two parrots perch on the frame of the cartouche, at the top of which is an inscription describing the scene as a new colony for speculators. In each corner is a scene in a frame: at top left (1) the death bed of Louis XIV with rats eating papers falling from a chest; at top right (2) John Law presents his scheme to the French royal council presided over by the Duke of Orleans; at lower left (3) a gentlman and lady in a richly furnished room where a servant wheels in barrow of money-bags and another shows the lady an elaborate gown and head-dress; at lower right (4) a failed investor sits lamenting while his wife upbraids him, his children quarrel and their nurse weeps. Engraved Dutch title, inscriptions, numbering 1-4, and with letterpress title and verses, including a legend to the images, in two columns. 1720
Etching
- Production date
- 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 155 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 314 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 210 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 Bubble 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9692
