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:
- 812311i
- Part of:
- Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
- Pictures
About this work
Description
On the left, John Law sits in a chariot being drawn by two cocks to the hospital. Right, a look-out man in a tower, representing the Mississippi Company. Foreground, a man with a wooden leg and a broken car, representing the South Sea Company
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [publisher not identified], [1720?]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 22.4 x 18.2 cm
Lettering
De inventeur der wind-negotie, op zijn zeege-kar. ...
Translation of lettering: "The inventor of the 'wind-business' in his triumphal car". Beside the image, Dutch verses printed in letterpress in two columns
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. 3581 (46)
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 2, London 1978, no. 1671
Arthur H. Cole, The great mirror of folly (Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid). An economic-bibliographical study, Boston 1949, no. 46
Reference
Wellcome Collection 812311i
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