COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
De lachende Ezopus, op het koolmaal, gehouden ter afscheyd van actieapen.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [47]
Image dimensions:
39 x 45 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [The laughing Aesop, present at the cabbage-feast, which was given at the leave-taking of the stock-apes.] Aesop dressed as a harlequin (or Bombario), a hunch-backed fool, holds a cabbage in his hand while monkeys or apes eat cabbage in a circle. In the background wolves chase sheep and apes tend to the sheep. In clouds above the scene, a man representing time with an hourglass on his head and holding a scythe watches as a Dutch lion gives a bag of money to Mercury with his caduceus and winged helmet.
References:
BM 1678
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 lachende Ezopus, op het koolmaal, gehouden ter afscheyd van actieapen.
