Title from text etched above image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Night singer of shares with his magic lantern., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '2'., Text burnished from plate between image and verse., Two columns of verse in Dutch below image: 't wind-luchtig bulken, blaasen, gaapen, zyn tanden braaf te laaten zien ..., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Picture of the very famous Island of Madhead., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse below image: Deez' Schets vertoond het vreemd gewest Van Gekskop, 't geen men op het lest ..., Plate 3 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Watermark., and Mounted to 37 x 34 cm.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Three columns of verse in Dutch below image: Een Actie-Heer, die d'Actie-Wind Had by Scheeps-ladings ingeslágen ..., Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part., and Title translation on verso: Anatomy of the trade wind, or, Bombardio for the Devil.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: April card, or, Momus's game at cards after the newest fashion., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Fifty four images of playing cards in six rows, begining with the king of hearts in the upper left corner and ending with a card engraved with the title in the lower right corner. Each image is 8.4 x 4.8 cm., Plate 8 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark: Strasburg bend in the lower part of sheet, countermark N in the upper part.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Harlequin stockholder., State with festoons comprised of a pair of bellows, human mask, a cheese and fruit, as described by Stephens., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Plate 25 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Six lines of verse in Dutch added below plate in an unidentified contemporary hand: Wat moet wen niet ..., Watermark., and Mounted to 46 x 28 cm.
Uitlegginge der tytelplaat voor arlequyn actionist
Description:
Title in letterpress above image., State with festoons comprised of a pair of bellows, human mask, a cheese and fruit; additional title in letterpress above plate line, as described in Stephens., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Six stanzas of verse in three columns in letterpress below plate: Ziet hoe dat deeze actienbaazen, agter het tooneelgordyn ..., Plate 26 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
Title from item., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Plate 19 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Two columns of text in Dutch in lower left of the image: Actieuse papiere atlas naar de mode met zyn na-sleep, of t[sic] Kegelspel des klynen tds ..., Two columns of text in French in lower right of the image: L'Atlas actieux de papier à la mode, avec ses complices et le jeu de quille du petit tems ..., Two lines of text in Dutch on either side of title: Verklaaring van 't Tafereeltje ..., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Title from item., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse in English on left below image: Here, may the wand[e]ring eye with pleasure see Both knaves and foolls [sic] in borrow[e]d shapes agree ..., Two columns of verse in Dutch on right below image: Hier kan 't Nieuwsgierig oog met Lust en ruymte weyen ..., Plate 14 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Architecture: assembly room., and Watermark in the right part of sheet.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., One line of text below image: Alwaar de Ziel zig aan de Geldzugt heeft gegéven ..., Five columns of verse in Dutch at top of image, below title: Het heilloos goud, van elk dienstplegtig aangebeden ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dutchmen -- Greed for gold., and Title translation in an unverified card catalog record: Speculation on the gold-greedy world at the beginning of the destruction of commercial affairs.
"Satire on the financial crisis in 1720, the print is No.1 in a series of eight prints. A cartouche, enclosing a view of a tomb or monument before which stand Aesop, with a fox and holding a parrot and a pipe, and Bombario with a pedlar's tray holding a flask and allowing his hunchback to be used by a well-dressed man as a writing desk; a monkey plays on a pipe at his feet. On the tomb is an inscription 'Het na-geslecht zal dit/ Voor Fablen houwen/ En tot Esopus eer, een/ Graf naald bouwen' (Posterity will take this as a fable, and will build a tomb in honour of Aesop). The cartouche is supported by a satyr, whose name is given at the top on a ribbon as "Oorblasers Baas" (Chief of the Ear-blowers, or liars), his head peers over the top of the cartouche and he blows bubbles, some bearing images of ears; on his head is a basket with little figures of men and women who will appear in subsequent prints in the series. At the top of the cartouche are pan-pipes, on the left, and a hunting horn, on the right; at the bottom between the satyr's goat legs is the date, 1720."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Title translation in the British Museum catalogue: Bombario the share jobber and the ghost of Esop., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '1' within the image., Earlier design burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Two columns of verse at top of image on either side of the design: 1 Bombario treed in gesprek Met broer 2 Esopus Geest zy kaller ..., Temporary local subject terms: South Sea Bubble., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
