De laggende law, de treurende actionist met de smekende Mercurius [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- De laggende law, de treurende actionist met de smekende Mercurius [graphic].
- Published / Created
- [1720]
- Publication Place
- Netherlands?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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"A reversed copy of a broadside on the South Sea Bubble, satirrising various investment schemes of 1720; with an etching showing an outdoor, stage-like setting, in the centre a gentleman holding his hat in his R hand and a cane in his left hand, proabably representing the Mississippi Company, above him a scroll supsended from two balloons labelled West and East, on the left another man, representing John Law, pouring money into a money chest, in the background the sea with various stationary ships; with engraved title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from item.
Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Law laughing, the shareholders mourning and Mercury entreating.
Publication date from book in which this print was published.
Three columns of verse in Dutch engraved below title: K'moet laggen zeker waar als ik myn schat aanzie ...
Plate 85 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1.
Mounted to 45 x 36 cm.
Watermark. - Provenance
- Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 33.9 x 29.4 cm, on sheet 42 x 35 cm
- Language
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Dutch
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 720.00.00.91+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) Netherlands 1720
Etchings Netherlands 1720
Book illustrations
Broadsides
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
- Subjects
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South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Netherlands > 1720
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8893252
- Object ID (OID)
- 10697485