Disastrous consequences of the stock market speculation, 1720

Various men commit suicide after losing everything in the stock market speculation; others have gone mad or committed robbery. In the foreground the weeping Heraclitus, in the background the carriage of the rich man. In the caption the explanation of the numbers 1-9. The print belongs to the group of supplementary prints added to the series Tafereel der Dwaasheid with satirical prints on the Windhandel or Actiehandel of 1720.