Het uitgeteerde en stervende actie boomtje [graphic].
Contributor
Berge, Pieter van den, 1659-1737, printmaker.
Published / Created
[1720]
Publication Place
Netherlands?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title from text engraved above image. Attributed to P.V.D. Berge in an unverified card catalog record. Publication date from book in which this plate was published. Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition. On one sheet with five columns of letterpress. Four lines of verse below image: Schoon de eid'le Hoop nog hoopt, het actie boomtze sterft ... Plate 49 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. Watermark. Sheet numbered '49' in pencil in an unidentified hand in upper right corner, recto; mounted to 46 x 33 cm. Title translation on verso of mount: The emanciation and death of the share tree.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 15.6 x 10.2 cm, on sheet 42 x 32 cm
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