"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.
Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Later version of the design by Peter Brueghel the Elder., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720 and Medical procedures & techniques
Title from text engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Controller of the fortunate and miserable Lapis-seekers or searchers for the Philosopher's Stone., Plate numbered '8' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this state., Ten lines of verse below image: Men eyst miljoenen van elk schatryk actionist ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to John Law, 1671-1729., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The end of the stock-world., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Traces of earlier text burnished from plate visible at bottom center of image., Sixteen lines of verse in six columns in Dutch below the image: Wie dat verwaand te hoog wil vliegen ..., Plate 16 in: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Watermark in the left part of sheet.
Title from caption above engraved text., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Two columns of verse in Dutch below image: Vrouw fama, bézig met de meerman te bekranssen ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: South Sea Bubble -- Mythology: mermen -- Mercury -- Holland as as windmill -- Neptune -- Mermaids., and Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part.
Caption title from poem inscribed below image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Chevalier of the Golden Calf, or, Captain of the early and late time of slaughtering in procession to the Oracle of Delphos., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse below title: 'k Schoot menig vogel mis, 'k heb ook schaars wild gevangen ..., Plate 67 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... . [Netherlands?], 1720, v.1., Mounted to 45 x 35 cm., and Watermark.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The defeated stock-jobber seated in the chair with jingles, having been ridden over by the laureated horse of Troy., Four columns of verse below image: 1. Helaas! de Zuid! de Zuid! ..., Plate 38 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in the right part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the left part.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The Babel Tower of the confused stock jobbers., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: 1. Zie Lauw in 't reek'nen uitgeleerd ..., and Plate 57 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1.
Title from item., Plate with image is impressed above the plate with engraved verse., Three columns of verse in Dutch: Hier zieje klaar voor d'Actionisten vianens tolpoort afgebeelt ..., Plates numbered 39 in: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in the lower part of sheet, countermark N in the upper part.