COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
13055
Call number:
F720 G876t2 /2-SIZE
Title:
Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden heer Quinquenpoix.
Place:
[Amsterdam]
Date:
1720
Image technique:
engraved plate [37]
Image dimensions:
39 x 45 cm.
Narrative description:
Investment schemes. [True portrait of the renowed Mr. Quinquenpoix.] A portrait of John Law is surrounded by Diogenes with his lantern who seeks an honest man but finds fools and evil spirits, including a woman representing vanity with a picture of Icarus falling, a woman representing envy eating a snake, a satyr holds a scorpion, a man feeds shares into a fire, a glutton sits on a sow or pig, a man representing folly holds a crown of feathers, a woman holds a torch of straw. Also includes a mirror, an owl, an ass or donkey, and a raven. Quinquempoix is the name of a street in Paris which had the headquarters of the Compagnie des Indes and was associated with John Law.
References:
BM 1612
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
Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden heer Quinquenpoix.
