COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
De laggende Law, de treurende actionist met de smekende Mercurius.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [51]
Image dimensions:
39 x 45 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [Law laughing, the shareholders mourning, and Mercury entreating.] John Law laughs as he pours coins from a cornucopia into a teasure chest. In the middle a shareholder surveys useless shares on the grand. Mercury with his winged helmet and caduceus flies away. In the foreground a monkey or ape grovels on the floor, a woman runs in front of a fool (or Bombario) is farting on an orb of sovereignty. In the background is a town labeled Vianen. Also includes a harpy, baskets of jewelry, and coins, a statue blowing bubbles and the sea. Vianen was a "free city"� during the Middle Ages and anyone who could pay the toll to enter the city would be granted sanctuary from creditors.
References:
BM 1632
Notes:
In: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX, [Amsterdam], 1720. This book is volume 1 of a collection of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles.
Subject:
South Sea Bubble
Normalized date:
1720
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De laggende Law, de treurende actionist met de smekende Mercurius.
