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Satirical print on insatiable wealth and satisfying poverty, 1618
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Satirical print on insatiable wealth and satisfying poverty, 1618. Contrast between a naked man only dressed in a wicker birdcage riding a hobby horse and a rich and fashionably dressed man admiring himself in a hand mirror. In the background people drinking and feasting in front of an inn and merchants in a port city. With an inscription of 2 times 4 lines in Latin. The plate printed on a leaf with verses numbered 1-12 with a dialogue between Onversadighen Pracht and Genoegende soberheyt.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineSpotprent op de onverzadigbare rijkdom en de bevredigende armoede, 1618. 1618 - 1625. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.