COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
De waereld is een speel toneel, elk speeld zyn rol en krygt zyn deel.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [19]
Image dimensions:
49 x 44 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [The world is a stage; everyone acts his part and gets his portion.] Resembling the stage of a theater with Time drawing back the curtain and the center scene showing the players advancing on a devil. Above them is an assembly of gods with Justice and Mercury pleading with Jupiter. Includes monsters, the peddler, Bombario, the coat of arms of Leiden and Haarlem, a beehive, coins, an overthrown world with “Missisppi” [Mississippi] marked on it, a mousetrap, a goose, bubbles, and a mirror. Surrounding the central scene are 10 vignettes showing the establishment of the Mississippi and the West India companies, a fishery company in Enkhuizen and including ships, black men and/or slaves and/or native Americans, as well as men landing on exotic shores.
References:
BM 1659
Notes:
In: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX, [Amsterdam], 1720. This book is volume 1 of a collection of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles.
Subject:
South Sea Bubble
Normalized date:
1720
De waereld is een speel toneel, elk speeld zyn rol en krygt zyn deel.
