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King and Queen of the Mississippi, 1720
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A married couple with a child, the man and woman designated as the King and Queen of the Mississippi, standing in a landscape. In the background, cannibalism, roasting human limbs on a fire. Used as a reference to the Mississippi Company. Print 71 in the series The Great Theatre of Folly with satires on the Wind Trade or Share Trading of 1720.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineKoning en koningin van de Mississippi, 1720. 1600 - 1650. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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