COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
Uystlag der wind negotie.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [13]
Image dimensions:
39 x 50 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [Result of the wind trade.] Many people are receiving shares from a man who sits on chair and from whose horn of plenty pours cabbages. Also includes Bombario in the dress of Punch, as a peddler wearing spectacles and holding a tray of quack medicine, an insane person with stockings on his head and smoke rising from his mouth, a madhouse in the upper right, a windmill in the distance, a chariot and horse, men digging a trench, and a castle in the clouds. Items in the image are identified in text below.
References:
BM 1652
Notes:
In: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX, [Amsterdam], 1720. This book is volume 1 of a collection of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles.
Subject:
South Sea Bubble
Normalized date:
1720
Uystlag der wind negotie.
