print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1875,0710.1534
- Title
- Object: Wie der Reich den Armen friszt:
- Description
-
A broadside complaining about the exploitation of the poor by the rich; with an engraving showing the food-chain of wealth, with a devil pulling a female figure away from a sack of money while eating at the same time a richly-dressed man, who is eating a smaller, poorly-dressed man; with engraved title and text by Andreas Friedrich in one column. (n.p.:[1621])
- Production date
- 1621
- Dimensions
-
Height: 293 millimetres
-
Width: 168 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to Paas, image is based on the woodcut illustration for emblem 20 in Andreas Friedrich's Jetziger Weltlauff (Frankfurt: Conrad Corthoys, 1611), Paas PA849.
Harms illustrates a version of the sheet with an attached publication line (Augsburg, Johann Klocker: 1629). The dating of this sheet follows Paas.
also catalogued as Harms IV.52 V
Further lit.: Martha White Paas, The 'Wipper und Kipper' Inflation, 1619-1623: An economic history with contemporary German broadsheets (New Haven, 2012): plate IX.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0710.1534
