Detail View: JCB Political Cartoons: Monument consacré a la posterité en memoire de la folie incroyable de la XX. année du XVIII. siecle. Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jaar der XVIII. eeuw

Accession number: 
13055
Call number: 
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title: 
Monument consacré a la posterité en memoire de la folie incroyable de la XX. année du XVIII. siecle. Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jaar der XVIII. eeuw
Place: 
[Amsterdam]
Date: 
1720
Image technique: 
engraved plate [18]
Image dimensions: 
39 x 50 cm.
Narrative description: 
Investment schemes. [Monument consecrated to posterity in memory of the unbelievable folly of the 20th year of the 18th century.] A scene on the rue Quinquenpoix, [Amsterdam], in which Fate in the form of a naked female showers the crowds with shares. Her chariot is drawn by figures representing the South Sea Company, the Mississippi Company wearing a feathered headdress, the West India Company, the bank, a figure with "Indes" wearing a Dutch hat and windmill [?] representing the Dutch mania for shares, and a youthful female figure labeled “Assura.” Also in the chariot is a fool wearing a hoop skirt, a cock representing France, a lion representing England, and another lion grasping the arrow of the Seven United Provinces. Above a devil blows bubbles, while a woman is run over and men fight in the street. Also includes mushrooms, books, mice, and money.
References: 
BM 1628
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
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