print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9728
- Title
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Object: De Geest van der Verreesene Heerakliet Schryjend over de Lagh-Stof van Demokriet
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Series: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
- Description
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Satire on the financial crisis in 1720, showing on the right a man hanging from a tree and a naked woman weeping for him, in the middle a man (Democritus) weeping and holding a box bearing the inscription 'Heraclitus', on the right men commiting suicide and a smirking fool watching them whilst smoking a pipe, behind a crowd fighting; in the background there is a coach drawn by four horses, the horses trample a man lying on the ground; number 1-9 engraved in the design and below a legend.1720
Etching.
- Production date
- 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 177 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For 'Het tweede Deel' (the second scene) of this etching see BM 1868-0808-9729
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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 Bubbles 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9728