Madame Law
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Title
Madame Law
Collection
Print Collection portrait file
L
John Law
Names
Duflos, Claude, 1665-1727 (Printmaker)
Buysen, P. van, active 1700-1799 (Printmaker)
Schenk, Pieter, II, 1700-1750 (Publisher)
Koning, Willem, active approximately 1721 (Printer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1720 (Approximate)
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: Print File: Ephemera
Subjects
Genres
Notes
Citation/Reference: BM Satires 1688; FMH 3612; Atlas van Stolk 3525-7b
Physical Description
Etchings
Extent: Image: 4 3/4 × 3 1/8 in. (12 × 8 cm) Paper / Sheet: 5 × 3 1/4 in. (12.7 × 8.3 cm) Mat / Mount: 13 7/16 × 9 3/4 in. (34.2 × 24.8 cm)
Abstract
Lettered within the image with the title, eight lines of verse in French 'Sa Mathematique est lepreuve ... Qui est, pour soi, absolut fin', with six lines of verse in Dutch below the image, the figure hoping that Rome will help her husband and restore them both with his shrewd counsel: 'Ih speel voor man en wyf, als onbesturnve weew ... Ayn schrundre Rand helpe u, herstel ons same in ees.'. No. 17 in vol. 2 of 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', a collection of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea Companies, their promoters and victims. Pasted inside a printed border (from a separate plate) on another sheet, printed by P. van Buysen and published by Wilhelmus Koning.
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Identifiers
Other local Identifier: Portrait File
TMS Object Number: Portraits (John Law).0011
TMS ID: 479921
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 20.09.035
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 08eed9f0-c57c-012f-d3a0-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Madame Law" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1720. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08eed9f0-c57c-012f-d3a0-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1720). Madame Law Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08eed9f0-c57c-012f-d3a0-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Madame Law" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08eed9f0-c57c-012f-d3a0-58d385a7bc34
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