Harlequin Met de Rarekiek

Anon

Copper engraving

Holland

1709

5" x 7"

Three pages from J. Pooks Rommel-Zoodjen published by Timotheus Ten Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1709.(B400)

0720

Fürwitziger Curiositet-Narr

J. C. Weigel

Engraving

Vienna, Austria

1709

6 1/4" x 8"

A page from:Abraham a Sancta Clara: Centifolium Stultorum in Quarto

0721

O Rare Show

I. Smith after H. Cerk

mezzotint

c. 1710

9" x 12"

One of the earliest know showmen, James Larouche, with a cabinet of curiosity.

0723

Nicolo Cantabella, Savoyard

William Konig

Engraving

1716

5 1/4" x 9"

A page from the book II Callotto resuscitato. Orer Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet (B480). The book contains 57 plates of famous dwarfs including the savoyard with his peepshow.

2719

Fürwitziger Curiositet-Narr

Anon

Pen & ink

c.1720

3" x 3 1/4"

Pencil and ink drawing after Fürwitziger Curiositet-Narr

0722

Georg Philipp Rugendas I (1666-1742)

Mezzotint

Germany

1720

16" x 11"

2974

Anon

Etching

1720

18" x 13 1/2"

A page from HET GROOTE TAFAREL DER DWAASHEID. This book was a famous satire on John Law's system and the wild speculation in stocks that supported land speculation and trade in Louisiana The book, each copy seemingly unique, with a different number of plates is full of satirical material.

The peepshow is located at the lower left corner of this busy print with a huge archway entitled: Memorial Arch at the Burial Ground for Exhausted Stockholders.

0725

Southwark Fair

William Hogarth

Line engraving

1733

17 3/4"" x 13 1/2"

Hogarth's famous image of a crowded fair, a booth in the left foreground collapsing ,a rope walker and the booth of the conjurer Isaac Fawkes, as well as an unusual peepshow with viewing windows at both ends.

0726