Mirror of Reason for the Desperate Actionist, 1720, Mirror of Reason for the Desperate Actionists (title on object), The Great Table of Foolishness (series title), Mirror of Reason for the Desperate Actionist. A wind merchant who is about to stab himself in the chest with a dagger is held up a mirror by the personification of Reason. In the background, Caution stops the wind trade with a shield marked Y (u003d the IJ in Amsterdam). The sheet surrounding the plate contains three parts of text. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with cartoons on the

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