COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
Anatomie der wind-negotie, of Bombario voor den drommel.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [52]
Image dimensions:
39 x 45 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [Anatomy of the stock-jobbery or Bombario gone to the devil.] A man is shown being blindfolded by monkeys and/or devils, a corpse is showing laid out on a table and being dissected by a "quack"� or doctor in spectacles or glasses holding bladders over him and a man lying in a wicket basket. In the background is a setting or rising sun and a fool (or Bombario) fleeing on the back of a Hydra. Includes an orb of sovereignty.
References:
Not in BM
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
Link To Source
Anatomie der wind-negotie, of Bombario voor den drommel.
