19 results filtered with: Law, John, 1671-1729
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Death as an allegory of the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720]Reference: 816096iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 3999iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam: dealers conversing and raving during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811589iPart 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 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
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
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
John Law as Don Quixote with Bombario as Sancho Panza. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812234iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The map of an island in the form of a fool's head; representing the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814545iPart 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
John Law, the instigator of the Dutch share boom of 1720, lies collapsed with his head in the lap of 'Madame Compagnie' (the Mississippi Company). Etching by and after Philibert (Filibert) Bouttats, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812497iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Wind as an analogy for speculative short-selling in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721, and a warning to John Law about the indulgences of Shrove Tuesday. Etching, 1721.
Date: [1721]Reference: 816084iPart 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 portrait of John Law ("Mr Quinquenpoix") is crowned by a fool and attended by figures representing aspects of the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2535481iPart 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
John Law, the author of the financial crisis of 1720, rides in a triumphal chariot before the "sentinel of the Mississippi". Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812311iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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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
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.