Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The South Sea Company, having risen to the top by wind, now laments her loss with a rueful aspect., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Plate with image is impressed above a second plate (plate mark 15.7 x 30.5 cm) with engraved verse., Three columns of verse in Dutch: De bange Zuidzé Compagnie, Met 't Vrouwebeeld[j?]en aangewézen ..., Plates 39 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part.
Title from banner at top of image., Attributed to Berge in an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition., On one sheet with five columns of letterpress., Four lines of verse in Dutch engraved below design: De bubbel jongen die zyn schatten heest verspild ..., Plate from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., Mounted to 47 x 32 cm., and Title translation on verso of mount: The bubble boy hunting.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Eclipse of the Southern Sun puts many a place in darkness, as occasioned by the unpolitic Moon., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Three columns of verse in French titled "L'actieux souflet et le genie d'Erasme ...", below the verse in Dutch: 1. La Fraude est arrivée la premiere en Hollande ..., Plate 29 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Watermark., and Mounted to 44 x 35 cm.
Title from caption at the top of the image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Fancy, the ruler of the Guild of Smoke-Sellers, paints here Mississippi, which wastes France's treasures., Plate with image is impressed above the plate with engraved verse., Three columns of verse in Dutch: De inbeelding maald hier schoon van schyn Het Missisippi, dog met verven ..., Plate 42 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in the lower part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the upper part.
A satire on the Mississippie Company and other financial bubbles of 1720
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Title in letterpress, above image., Two columns of verse in Dutch on either side of the image: Het hoofd der koopmanschap van wind, of de inventeur der dolligheden ..., Mounted to 35 x 44 cm., and Watermark: 174[2?]
Title from caption preceding text, below the image., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Two columns of verse in Dutch below title: Loop! Actie-nar loop aan (als of gy om een duit Een been zoud' koopen) naar die Bes-en Wortel buit ..., Plate 54 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: South Sea Bubble., Mounted to 44 x 35 cm., and Watermark.
"A reversed copy of a broadside on the South Sea Bubble, satirrising various investment schemes of 1720; with an etching showing an outdoor, stage-like setting, in the centre a gentleman holding his hat in his R hand and a cane in his left hand, proabably representing the Mississippi Company, above him a scroll supsended from two balloons labelled West and East, on the left another man, representing John Law, pouring money into a money chest, in the background the sea with various stationary ships; with engraved title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Law laughing, the shareholders mourning and Mercury entreating., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch engraved below title: K'moet laggen zeker waar als ik myn schat aanzie ..., Plate 85 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Mounted to 45 x 36 cm., and Watermark.
Title in letterpress above image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The dying bubble lord in the lap of Madame Company., Later state, without printmaker's name and with changes within the image. Cf. No. 1447 in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., On one sheet with two columns of letterpress., Plate 75 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis in the right part of sheet, countermark I V in the left part.
Title in letterpress at top of sheet., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Impressed on sheet with five columns of letterpress., Two lines of verse in Dutch at bottom of design: De Actie Valk, die uit ging vliegen om te strópen ..., Plate 60 from(?): Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hawks -- Owls., Watermark., and Title translation on verso of mount: The marauding stock-hawk on the neck, and the bubble-rat under the claw of the owl. Mounted to 46 x 33 cm.