Greed tries to overtake Fortuna, 1720, De Begeerlykheyt searches for Fortune to find out or to outrun (title on object), The Great Scene of Foolishness (series title), De Greed tries to overtake Fortuna. Depiction of all kinds of greed among people from childhood to old age. In the background, a procession of wind merchants on foot and in carriages, in pursuit of Fortune, plunges from a cliff into the abyss. At the top a portrait of John Law with a banderole with six-line verse. With caption in six columns. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel of 1720., print, print maker: anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1720, paper, etching, engraving, height, 344 mm × width c. 410 mm
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