Bombario riding on a pig, representing deformity of trade in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
- Date:
- [1720?]
- Reference:
- 814376i
- Part of:
- Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Bombario, the personification of deformed trade, vomiting vegetables and drinking berry juice, rides on a pig, which vomits vegetables and share certificates. Above Bombario a harpy, vomiting stock certificates onto the rider, receives a fool's cap from a putto. Left background, a house representing a trading company, at the open windows of which two men distribute documents to the waiting crowd. In the foreground, a cow stands in a stream eating root vegetables and stock certificates
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [publisher not identified], [1720?]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 33.7 x 28 cm
Lettering
De kornet van vuil gewin, of wortel en besse postiljon op zyn mager doch niewlijks gemest varken, uitschreewende De kompany is vol.
Translation of lettering: "The cavalryman of foul profit, or the vegetable-and-berries rider on his thin but newly fatted boar, crying out "The company is full"." Below the image, Dutch verses engraved in two columns
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. 3582 (47)
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. 47
Reference
Wellcome Collection 814376i
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores