COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
Quinquenpoix
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [56]
Image dimensions:
39 x 25 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. Portrait of John Law pointing to a book in which is written, " Dico ego mea opera Regi."� Quinquempoix is the name of a street in Paris which had the headquarters of the Compagnie des Indes and was associated with John Law.
References:
BM 1680
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
Link To Source
Quinquenpoix
