Rise and Fall of the Actionists, 1720

Rise and Fall of the Shareholders. Sheet with various scenes about the unrest caused by the Wind Trade of 1720. In the center below 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. At upper left, merchant shipping; at upper right, excavation work for the Utrecht canal. In the caption a poem in seven columns. Print 7 in the series Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid with satirical prints on the Wind Trade or Share Trading of 1720.