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A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.
- Date:
- 1720
- Reference:
- 3999i
- Part of:
- Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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"Controller of the fortunate and miserable seekers after the [philosopher's] stone". He seems to read a script referring to financial speculators as alchemists wasting their money
Publication/Creation
1720
Physical description
1 print : line engraving and etching
Lettering
Contrarolleur van de gelukkige en rampzalige lapis-zoekers. ...
Lettering continues with ten lines of verse describing the sitter
Bears number "8"
References note
Frederik Muller, De nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, Amsterdam 1863, part 2, no. 3564 (29).8
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 2, London 1873, p. 522, no. 1670
Arthur H. Cole, The great mirror of folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid). An economic-bibliographical study, Boston 1949, no. 29
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3999i
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