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John Law, the inventor of the wind trade, in his triumphal chariot, 1720
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John Law, the inventor of the wind trade, in his triumphal chariot drawn by two French roosters. To the right the sentinel of the Mississippi in a tower, in the foreground the 'crippled courier' of the South Sea Company. Printed on the sheet on both sides of the plate a verse in two columns. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 10) of Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with satirical prints on the Wind Trade or Share Trading of 1720.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineJohn Law, de uitvinder van de windnegotie, in zijn zegekar, 1720. 1706. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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