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An affordable popular print aimed at a broad audience, this woodcut is a humorous but stinging satire of humanity’s unbridled lust for wealth. At the center a monstrous
creature stands on top of a chest of gold coins, holding money-filled purses and a spiked iron poker. People from different ranks of society—popes, cardinals, bishops, and monks on the left; emperors, kings, noblemen, and soldiers on the right—point their weapons at the money devil. The visual joke derives from a pun in the French inscription, which uses a word that means both “aiming at” and “striving for.” This print appears to be the only surviving impression of this particular composition.
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| Medium | ink |
| Dimensions | 47 × 32 Cm |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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