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Folly

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  • A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Folie et déraison à la Renaissance : colloque international tenu en novembre 1973 sous les auspices de la Fédération internationale des instituts et sociétés pour l'étude de la Renaissance.

    | Date: [1976], ©1976
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    A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.

    Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833. | Date: 1809 | Reference: 17675i
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    A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.

    Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733. | Date: [1720?] | Reference: 812283i
    Part of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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    A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.

    E. C. | Date: 1931 | Reference: 537097i
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    Encomium moriae, sive declamatio, in laudem stulticiae / [Desiderius Erasmus].

    Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. | Date: 1622
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