Northern Netherlands, The Great Tableau of Folly, De Greed seeks to overtake Fortune or to outrun it, Greed tries to overtake Fortuna, 1720, Greed tries to overtake Fortuna. Representation of all kinds of greed among people from childhood to old age. In the background a procession of wind traders on foot and in carriages throws itself into the abyss in pursuit of Fortune from a rock. At the top a portrait of John Law with a banderole with six-line verse. With a caption in six columns. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 10) of The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons on the Wind Trade or Action Trade of 1720., print, cartoon, books, Frederik Muller History Plates, height 375 mm, width 425 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1720 - 1720, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process)
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