Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist, 1720, 1720 print Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist. A wind trader who is about to put a dagger in the chest is held up a mirror by the personification of the reason. In the background, caution with a shield marked y (= the IJ in Amsterdam) stops the wind trade. There are three parts of text on the leaf around the plate. Print 34 In the series The Great Scene of Foolishness with cartoons on the Windhandel or Action Trade of 1720. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing Rationality, Reasoning; 'Ratiocinatione o Discors
Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist, 1720, 1720 print Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist. A wind trader who is about to put a dagger in the chest is held up a mirror by the personification of the reason. In the background, caution with a shield marked y (= the IJ in Amsterdam) stops the wind trade. There are three parts of text on the leaf around the plate. Print 34 In the series The Great Scene of Foolishness with cartoons on the Windhandel or Action Trade of 1720. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing Rationality, Reasoning; 'Ratiocinatione o Discorso' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by male figure). financial panic IJ
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