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The ghost of Erasmus flees his native city of Rotterdam as its finances are corrupted by the purchase of inflated stock during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811846iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam: shares are traded during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811729iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A dealer in inflated share-values in the Dutch share boom of 1720 is surrounded by symbols of inflation and corruption. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2500241iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A satirical new year's gift representing the spoiling of the year by speculation in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814509iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A car from which shares are sold in the Netherlands during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811628iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law: his rise to eminence and riches in France, and subsequent decline, resulting in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816080iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The result of speculation: Dutch peasants, burghers etc., buy worthless stock and lose their money in the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811774iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A mob stoning the coffee house in the rue Quinquenpoix in Paris where shares are traded during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811819iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Eight beggars or ruined investors lamenting their losses in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Engraving, 1720, after P. Quast.
Quast, Pieter Jansz., 1606-1647.Date: [1720?]Reference: 816094iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The Dutch financial crisis of 1720: the city of Amsterdam represents the voice of reason and resists disastrous speculation, while investors elsewhere are ruined . Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812357iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Investors optimistically seek the protection of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720, while others are irreversably ruined. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816028iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A putto encourages a lion to attack a unicorn; representing the desperation of speculators who lost their fortunes after the Dutch share boom of 1720 and turned to other ways to make money. Etching by P. van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812492iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Jupiter as the god of the sky and Mercury as the god of trade pass over the land on a cloud; below, men engaged in speculative share dealings in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2500242iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
At the request of John Law, Deception blinds the world, thus obscuring the disastrous consequences of Law's financial schemes. Etching by Pieter van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 814387iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A Dutch physician involved in share dealing in the Dutch speculation explosion of 1720. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 17580iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
An autopsy on an investor in the Dutch speculation boom of 1720 reveals that he had died of an excess of air, representing lack of value in the shares. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 17577iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Caricatures of speculative investment bubbles in Europe in 1720. Engraving.
Date: 1720Reference: 31506i- Pictures
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The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1721.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1721Reference: 579424i- Pictures
Share-dealers and ruined speculators confronting each other in a crowded street during the share price boom of 1720. Etching after A. Humblot, ca. 1720.
Humblot, Antoine, -1758.Date: [1720?]Reference: 3783iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Books
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Temple-Mills. The quaker's dialogue
Date: 1720?]- Books
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A letter to a friend in the country, occasioned by a report that there is a design still forming by the late directors of the South-Sea Company, their Agents and Associates, to issue the receipts of the third and fourth subscriptions at 1000l. per cent. and to extort about Ten Millions more from the miserable People of Great Britain. With some observations on the present state of affairs at Home and Abroad. By Eustace Budgell, Esq;
Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Pictures
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Robert Knight, Cashier of the South Sea Company, stands in a boat surrounded by horses, people and small devils. Engraving.
Date: [1721?]Reference: 31509i- Books
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A true state of the South-Sea-Scheme, as it was first form'd, &c. With the several alterations made in it before the Act of Parliament pass'd. And an examination of the conduct of the directors in the execution of that act. ...
Blunt, John, Sir, 1665-1733.Date: 1732- Books
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Cato's letters: or, Essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects. In four volumes.
Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]