COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
De begeerlykheyt zoekt de fortuin t' achterhalen of voor by te loopen.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [55]
Image dimensions:
39 x 45 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [Covetousness tries either to overtake or to outrun fortune.] Men and women plying various trades, bee-keeping, fishing, taking care of children, while behind them man people rush to the top of a cliff and thrown themselves over it. Includes carriage and horses falling off the cliff, a beggar with crutches carrying a woman representing Covetousness who is blindfolded and holds a triple fork toward a grave. Also includes a man with spectacles or glasses, a woman with a mirror and a snake, a fishing net, a dog, and Fortune standing on a globe.
References:
BM 1680
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
Normalized date:
1720
Link To Source
De begeerlykheyt zoekt de fortuin t' achterhalen of voor by te loopen.
