BEIN 2017 896: Cut into 18 cards (10 x 6 cm). In hand-made slipcase. From the Julia Parker Wightman Card Collection. Accompanied by typewritten description and 9 additional cards depicting the same illustrations, but with two images (i.e A and B, C and D, etc.) separated by a diagonal line, on each card (Plate 74 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2.)., Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Magic card, or, Remedy for the wind-breaking of the South-west and the departure of Cartouche., Eighteen images in form of playing cards in rows of six, numbered from 'A' in upper left to 'S' in lower right corner. Each design 9.8 x 5.8 cm., and Plate 23 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2.
An engraved title page produced by means of two plates, one enclosing the other
Description:
Attribution to Berge from an unverified card catalog record., Title from text in banner in the center of the image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Title-print of the stock-shop, or, Court of Quinquenpoix., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Two lines of verse in Dutch at the bottom of the smaller plate: De gote projecteur der Kopmanschap van wind ..., Two columns of verse in Dutch below design at the bottom of the larger plate: Aanschoúwer sta met aandagt stil ..., Plate 9 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., State without printmaker's name on plate. Cf. No. 1644 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Mounted to 45 x 33 cm., and Watermark.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to design on three sides., Temporary local subject terms: William V, Prince of Orange, 1748-1806? -- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 1735-1806? -- Amsterdam -- Patriots' war against Stadholder -- Father Time -- Hourglasses suspended horizontally., and Mounted on blue paper to 9.4 x 11.9 cm., mounted to 37 x 16 cm.
Title from item., Title translated in British Museum catalogue as: Shrove tide's wreath of joy and the drama., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Twenty-two lines of verse above and below the smaller plate: De Vasten Avond praald met veele Maskeraaden ..., Five lines of text titled "Raad voor Jan Law" below verse: Ik raad u Actie-prins ..., Additional lines of verse engraved vertically on either side of smaller plate and at top and bottom of the larger plate., Traces of earlier text burnished from the bottom of the larger plate visible under caption of this edition., and Plate 6 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2.
Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Venus de' Medici. Aphrodite, looking right, stands naked in a pudica pose; a dolphin being ridden by a putto sits next to her left leg
Description:
Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "39" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from text engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Drinking cup, beaker, of Fi-âne or Vianen : second scene of Esop's Ghost., Spelling of the first word of title varies in Stephens., Plate numbered '5' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition., Ten lines of verse below image: Geen beter middel, als dit hooglands Nectar-vogt ..., and Mounted to 27 x 17 cm.
Title from item., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: Gy arme bubbeltjes, wel, wel ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Apollo -- Jesters -- Figure of Liberty -- Figure of Justice -- Mercury., Watermark in the right part of sheet., and Title translation on verso: Judgment of Apollo over the bubbles.
