COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
Baal of de waereld in maskerade. The World in Masquerade.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [63]
Image dimensions:
39 x 45 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [Ball or the world in masquerade.] View of a masque, ball, or dance with gentlemen, ladies, fools priests, people from all nations including native Americans with feathered headdresses and men in turbans. Around the curtain framing the room are faces of characters, some wearing fool’s caps, one wearing spectacles or glasses, some of various gods, one with horns, one a scholar. Also includes chandeliers. Verses beneath the image in both Dutch and English.
References:
BM 1635
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
Baal of de waereld in maskerade. The World in Masquerade.
