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Complaint of the South Sea Company, 1720
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Complaint of the South Sea Company, 1720

anonymous · 1720 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Complaint of the South Sea Company, 1720. The female personification of the South Sea Company with her children lying among books of debt on a sofa. Against a background of books labeled: Library of a Sad Shareholder. With small scenes of other failed enterprises; top left, shares are being vomited by a man. Below the scene, a caption with a verse in three columns printed from a separate plate. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with satirical prints on the Wind Trade or Share Trading of 1720.

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cartoonprintdefecationWindhandel van 1720
Credit lineKlacht van de Zuidzee-Compagnie, 1720. 1720. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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