Harlequin Actionist, 1720, Arlequyn Actionist (title on object), Het Groote Tafereel der Foolishness (series title), Cartoon on the actionists. The harlequin Bombario and a fool lift a curtain revealing the action trading at the Quincampoix coffee house, where a large crowd of action traders jostle for the actions being broadcast from a stage. In the foreground Mercury trapped in a cage. Print without the verse. Used as the title plate in the comedy of the same name by Pieter Langendijk from 1720. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with cartoons

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