COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
Nieuw-jaars geschenk, met narren paarde muskus geparfumeerd opgedraagen aan de geld-godin Pecunia door de actie-prins of viceroy van Plutus, in zyn niewe schuilhoek zyn wanhebbelyke liefde koesterende.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [53]
Image dimensions:
39 x 25 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [New Year's gift perfumed by the musk of fools' horses and dedicated to Pecunia, goddess of money, by the prince of stocks, or viceroy of Plutus, nourishing his ill-placed love in a new hiding place.] A woman is seduced by a satyr. A windhead blows and hail rains down. This image is surrounded by caricatures of a farmer or peasant, a fool's mantle or cloak, fur gloves, skates, feathers, a horse collar, an ax, shovel, and pick.
References:
BM 1679
Notes:
In: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX, [Amsterdam], 1720. This book is volume 1 of a collection of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles.
Subject:
South Sea Bubble
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Nieuw-jaars geschenk, met narren paarde muskus geparfumeerd opgedraagen aan de geld-godin ...
