Monument consacré a la posterité en memoire de la folie incroyable de la XX. année du XVIII. siecle [graphic] = Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jahr der XVIII. eeuw / B. Picart fecit 1720.

Edition:

[Another state].

Published/Created:

[Netherlands?
s.n
1720]

Physical Description:

1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 27.5 x 36.8 cm., on sheet 36 x 49 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Frederick George Stephens, v. 2, no. 1628

Notes:

Title from item.
State with a figure of a weeping woman sitting on a chair next to a stone plinth engraved with verse in French and Dutch in the lower left corner of image and the words "Procuration pour Hoorn &c." engraved on the block of stone in the lower right corner.
Plate 36 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1.
Six lines of verse in French followed by sixteen lines of text in the lower left of plate: Qui le croira? Qui l'eût jamais pensé? ...
Six lines of verse in Dutch followed by sixteen lines of text in the lower right of plate: Wat volk wat eeuw zal dit bedryf geloven ...
Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-1-111.

Variant Titles:

Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jahr der XVIII. eeuw

Associated Names:

Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733 [Printmaker]

Language:

French

Genre:

Book illustrations -- Netherlands -- 1720
Etchings -- Netherlands -- 1720
Satires (Visual works) -- Netherlands -- 1720

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

720.00.00.78+

Orbis Record:

8987460

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr00375

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10697472

PID:

digcoll:549370