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The Action Sphinx Jumps from the Mountain, 1720
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Landscape showing the Action Sphinx leaping from a mountain, a man with balloons being blown through the air, and various groups in the foreground engaged in the wind trade. In the distance, Vianen. A four-column verse in the caption. Print 43 in the series Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with satirical prints on the Wind Trade or Stock Trade of 1720.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDe Actiesfinx springt van de berg, 1720. 1720. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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