A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.

Date:
1720
Reference:
3999i
Part of:
Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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"Controller of the fortunate and miserable seekers after the [philosopher's] stone". He seems to read a script referring to financial speculators as alchemists wasting their money

Publication/Creation

1720

Physical description

1 print : line engraving and etching

Lettering

Contrarolleur van de gelukkige en rampzalige lapis-zoekers. ... Lettering continues with ten lines of verse describing the sitter Bears number "8"

References note

Frederik Muller, De nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, Amsterdam 1863, part 2, no. 3564 (29).8
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 2, London 1873, p. 522, no. 1670
Arthur H. Cole, The great mirror of folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid). An economic-bibliographical study, Boston 1949, no. 29

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3999i

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