The money-hungry world, 1720, Reflection on the money-hungry world, in the beginning of the rise and fall of the action trade (title on object), The Great Tableau of Foolishness (series title), Allegory on the money-hungry world, or the and demise of the promotion trade. In the center a figure sitting on a globe with a coin from John Law as a head. The performance is also filled with all kinds of examples of the folly of man in his desire for money, fights, quacks, farmers, etc. Copy of an old print. At the top a verse in five columns in Dutch. Print 70 in the series Het Groote Tafereel der

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