- Dutch letterpress text added on w. glued strip of paper at the bottom; sl. foxed/ soiled.
= Showing four figures in profile, with (presumably) Bismarck on the bottom right. The print can be folded in such a way that the possible anwer to the question becomes clear by transformation of the faces.
AND 2 unrelated others.
- Doubled; sl. foxed. = F.M. 3985 (nr. 28); Niemeijer p.106, bb.
AND 7 others after Cornelis Troost from the same work: "Het verliefde Bregtje", "Hopman Ulrich of de bedrogen Gierigheid", "De schilder door Liefde", "Tartuffe of de Schynheilige bedrieger", Jan Klaaszen, of de gewaande dienstmaagd", "De stiefmoêr" and "De listige vryster, of de verschalkte voogd".
- Old folds; a few tears/ weak spots strengthened on verso.
= Hollstein, Danckerts 117; Hollstein, Nolpe 55; Muller 185; F.M. 1756; Scheepers I, 440; cat. Tulipomania Frans Halsmuseum 28. From the reprint of De drie t'Zamenspraeken tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt, over de op- en ondergang van Flora (...) (orig. publ. Amst., 1643), reprinted during the period of high prices for hyacinths (1734). Krelage, Bloemenspeculatie in Nederland p.153: "In 1734 vreesde men zóó zeer een herhaling van den tulpenwindhandel dat een herdruk verscheen (...)." Rare.
- Trimmed ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark. Fine impression.
= New Hollstein 17, 2nd state of 5. One of a series of 4, The story of Tobias. With the collector's mark of Albert van den Briel (Lugt 407a).