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Title Page with the Action Stall or the Forecourt of Quinquenpoix, 1720
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Title Page with the Action Stall or the Forecourt of Quinquenpoix, 1720

Pieter van den Berge · 1697 · etching; engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Title page with the Actiekraam or the Courtyard of Quinquenpoix. In the central scene, a man kneels with a love declaration to a woman who rejects him (according to the text: John Law and Schoonschijn), surrounded by cupids and quiver cases in the border. With two lines in the caption. This print is printed in the center of a larger plate with a wreath made up of various objects related to the wind trade. At the bottom are Mercury and Neptune. In the plate, a caption with two verses. Title page in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with satirical prints on the Wind Trade or Share Trading of 1720.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineTitelpagina met de Actiekraam of het Voorhof van Quinquenpoix, 1720. 1697. Pieter van den Berge. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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