Rise and Fall of the Share Traders, 1720

Rise and Fall of the Shareholders. Sheet with various scenes about the unrest caused by the Wind Trade of 1720. Center bottom, Quinquempoix: a crowd of victims of the wind trade gathered on the Dam near the Kalverstraat; above it, The Tuileries Palace: panic in the Parisian Tuileries. At the top, a portrait of John Law holding a note with Mississippi, with a monkey and a wolf biting a sheep. Top left, merchant shipping; top right, excavation work for the Utrecht canal. In the caption, a verse in seven columns. 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.