The scrap paper world on fire, 1720, Des Kladdoeken Waerelds Vuur is As fout (title on object), The Great Table of Foolishness (series title), Central representation with the secular and spiritual princes and all kinds of other people from poor to rich are gathered to a globe that catches fire. In the four corners illustrations of the fleetingness of worldly pleasures. With multiple verses. Print 63 in the series Het Groote Tafereel der Foolheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel of 1720., print, print maker: anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1720, paper, etching, engraving, height

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