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
- Part of:
- Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
- Pictures
About this work
Description
In the centre, a coach driven by a man in a fool's costume and with Bombario riding in the rear of the coach, is about to leave from outside a city gate. Foolish shareholders are invited to ascend the coach. In the background, the two neighbouring cities of Culemborg (Kuilenburg) and Vianen, both of which were open to asylum seekers and both were proverbial as the resort of bankrupts
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [publisher not identified], [1720?]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 31.4 x 39 cm
Lettering
De malle actionisten naar Viaanen of 't Peperland
Translation of lettering: "The foolish go to Vianen [i.e. are bankrupted] or Pepperland [i.e. are evicted].". Below the image, engraved Dutch verses printed in three columns
A trompe l'oeil frame surrounds the image and lettering
Notes
'Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid', Amsterdam, 1720, is a collection of literary and pictorial satires relating to the Dutch speculation bubble of 1720, which occurred simultaneously with the South Sea bubble and the Mississippi bubble involving John Law. This print is one of the many in that collection: see A.H. Cole, op. cit.
References note
Frederik Muller, De nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, Amsterdam 1863, part 2, no. 3570 (35)
Not in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 2, London 1978
Arthur H. Cole, The great mirror of folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid). An economic-bibliographical study, Boston 1949, no. 35
Reference
Wellcome Collection 812368i
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores