The Old Exchange in Amsterdam: dealers offer share certificates for sale during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
- Date:
- [1720?]
- Reference:
- 811510i
- Part of:
- Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
- Pictures
About this work
Description
In the centre there is a placard listing 21 different markets in which trades are being carried out by short selling ("Lyst van de wind negotie"). In the colonnades and at the front stockbrokers and investors cry out offering shares
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [publisher not identified], [1720?]
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image and border 28.1 x 25.7 cm
Lettering
De windverkopers of windvangers, die door wind, verliezen geld en goed: bederven vrouw en kind
Verses in Dutch in three columns: Gy die in bubbels, bank en zuid, Uw geld, verstand, en tyd verbruit ... Zee hier een prent van de actienarren Die raazend ondereen verwarren ... Komt roept eer dat men verder dwaal, Dat Quincampoix de duvel haal! Bambario.
Notes
'Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid', Amsterdam, 1720, is a collection of literary and pictorial satires relating to the Dutch speculation bubble of 1720, which occurred simultaneously with the South Sea bubble and the Mississippi bubble involving John Law. This print is one of the many in that collection: see: A.H. Cole, op. cit.
References note
Frederik Muller, De nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, Amsterdam 1863, part 2, no. 3540 (3)
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 2, London 1954, no. 1624
Arthur H. Cole, The great mirror of folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid). An economic-bibliographical study, Boston 1949, no. 5
Reference
Wellcome Collection 811510i
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Location Status Access Closed stores