"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
Description:
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.