40 results filtered with: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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Six men appear puzzled and have their hands raised to their faces. Woodcut and letterpress.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 31516i
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A dwarf holding his hat. Engraving.
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The performance of a play representing the Dutch share price boom of 1720: Bombario blows bubbles before Princess Quinquenpoix. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812285i
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The burghers of the Dutch Republic are celebrating the death of Pope Clement XI; they are led by Death and devils to a picture showing the dying Clement XI and the new pope, Innocent XIII. Etching.
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Death as an allegory of the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720]Reference: 816096i- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam, with people trading shares; with vignettes showing the rise and fall of the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812076i- Pictures
Investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720 are incited by Jupiter, judged by Apollo, punished by Hercules, and deported to Hades. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812445i
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A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 3999i- Pictures
The Old Exchange in Amsterdam: dealers offer share certificates for sale during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811510i- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam: dealers conversing and raving during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811589i- Pictures
Investors optimistically seek the protection of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720, while others are irreversably ruined. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816028i- Pictures
A mob stoning the coffee house in the rue Quinquenpoix in Paris where shares are traded during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811819i- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam: shares are traded during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811729i- Pictures
A Dutch physician involved in share dealing in the Dutch speculation explosion of 1720. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 17580i- Pictures
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- Pictures
People ruined by the Dutch financial crisis of 1720 go by carriage to the cities of Vianen and Culemborg to seek refuge from creditors. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812368i- Pictures
At the request of John Law, Deception blinds the world, thus obscuring the disastrous consequences of Law's financial schemes. Etching by Pieter van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 814387i- Pictures
John Law as Don Quixote with Bombario as Sancho Panza. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812234i- Pictures
The map of an island in the form of a fool's head; representing the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814545i- Pictures
A car from which shares are sold in the Netherlands during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811628i- Pictures
Bombario riding on a pig, representing deformity of trade in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814376i- Pictures
A putto encourages a lion to attack a unicorn; representing the desperation of speculators who lost their fortunes after the Dutch share boom of 1720 and turned to other ways to make money. Etching by P. van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812492i- Pictures
Bombario as Aesop mocks monkeys eating cabbage, who represent investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814377i- Pictures
The Dutch financial crisis of 1720: the city of Amsterdam represents the voice of reason and resists disastrous speculation, while investors elsewhere are ruined . Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812357i- Pictures
John Law: his rise to eminence and riches in France, and subsequent decline, resulting in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816080i