The greedy world, 1720, 1720 print Allegory in the greedy world, or the up and down and downfall of the action trade. Central a figure sitting on a globe with a coin of John Law as head. The performance is further filled with all kinds of examples of the foolishness of man in his desire for money, fights, quacks, farmers, etc. Copy to an old print. At the top a verse in five columns in Dutch. Print 70 In the series The Great Scene of Foolishness with cartoons on the Windhandel or Action Trade of 1720. Northern Netherlands paper engraving money. fighting. Greed, Covetousness, Cupidity; 'Cupidit
The greedy world, 1720, 1720 print Allegory in the greedy world, or the up and down and downfall of the action trade. Central a figure sitting on a globe with a coin of John Law as head. The performance is further filled with all kinds of examples of the foolishness of man in his desire for money, fights, quacks, farmers, etc. Copy to an old print. At the top a verse in five columns in Dutch. Print 70 In the series The Great Scene of Foolishness with cartoons on the Windhandel or Action Trade of 1720. Northern Netherlands paper engraving money. fighting. Greed, Covetousness, Cupidity; 'Cupidità ' (Ripa)
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