The opened tomb of King Croesus, ca. 1707-1708, Here lays Cresus 's Waerelds Rykdom (title on object), The Steadfast Monarchy of Death, 't Pleasure Garden of Momus (series title), Allegory in which bystanders see the skeleton in the opened View the tomb of King Croesus, ca. 1707-1708. Numbered: 7 and marked: Pag. 17. Part of: The Steadfast Monarchy of Death, a series of 8 old plates with verses adapted for use as cartoons on the French in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series

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