A dealer in inflated share-values in the Dutch share boom of 1720 is surrounded by symbols of inflation and corruption. Etching, 1720.

[Amsterdam] : [publisher not identified], [1720?]

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 27.8 x 18.4 cm

Kermis wind-kraamer en grossier. Wind is 't begin; wind is het end ... Maar barst van wind, door blaasen moe. Le monopole des vents. Le vent est mon tresor, coussin et fondement ... L'espoir de gaïn s'atache. Translation of heading: "Fair of the wholesale wind-pedlar". Below the image, engraved Dutch verses printed in three columns signed "Q. Verwoude" and engraved French verses in two columns signed "S. Civilien"

Muller state a (i.e. with the French verses).

'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.

Frederik Muller, De nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, Amsterdam 1863, part 2, no. 3539 (4)

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 2, London 1978, no. 1646

Arthur H. Cole, The great mirror of folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid). An economic-bibliographical study, Boston 1949, no. 4

Wellcome Collection 2500241i