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Title
Madame Law
Additional title: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
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)
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Print Collection portrait file

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John Law

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1720 (Approximate)
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: Print File: Ephemera
Topics
Public figures
Law, John, 1671-1729
Genres
Portraits
Prints
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)
Description
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.
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
French
Dutch, Flemish
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 Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1665: Creator Born
  • 1720: Created
  • 1727: Creator Died
  • 2019: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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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/510d47e2-ac48-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

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 April 24, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-ac48-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

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/510d47e2-ac48-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Madame Law