Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The bedizened shareholders shown during their honour and influence., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Four columns of verse in Dutch engraved below image: Daar eider Scherst en lagt and spot En scheld op de Actie-handeláren ..., Plate 62 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Mounted to 46 x 35 cm.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The falsely-fair Share-Sphinx springs down from the high rocks., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: Een zieke speugt hier de Acties weer, Waar meê zyn maag was overláden ..., and Plate 71 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1.
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.
Title from item., Three columns of verse in Dutch below title: Dit liefde-staaltje van 't naakte actie-volk te dekken ..., and Plate 7 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2.
Title from item., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: Alden bruy is 't in 't rumoer, Burger, Koopman, hoer en boer ..., Plate 37 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 in the left part of sheet., and Title translation on verso: The ruinous shareholder restored through his triumph over Harlequin.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The wind buyers paid in wind, or, Those who are last will remain hanging on., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch below image: Kom heeren, wevers, boeren, snyers ..., Plate 11 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The actions and designs of the world go round as if in a mill., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: De Waereld loopt als in een [s?]oes; Bombario, de zwarte droes ... Philadelphus., and Plate 65 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1.
"A broadside on the South Sea Bubble, likening the speculation frenzy to allegorical scenes on the mutability of earthly goods and pleasures; with an etching showing five scenes, in the centre an outdoor scene in a village, under darkened sky a group of various people, including kings, the Pope, rich, and poor, surrounding and staring at a globe showing the South Seas (?) which are suffering from wind storms and fire; at the top left corner a scene on the death of Adonis, at the top right corner a scene of the death of Bacchus, at the bottom left a scene of King Midas sitting at a table with food turning into gold, at the bottom R a scene of a man sitting at a table set with money, jewellery and other valuables, at his R a skeleton taking his hand; with engraved title and verses in four columns. (n.p.: [1720])"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Large oval design in center surrounded by four smaller designs, one in each corner of the plate. Six columns of verse, two on either side of the central design and two below it: De jonkheid op het vrouw'lyk schoon, in hete minne-brand onsteken ..., Plate 68 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in the right part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the left part.
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Directress of the decayed stock-regiments and particularly of natural law's shares., Plate numbered '4' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this state., Two columns of verse below image: Vrow Directrice, in 't los gewaad ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to John Law, 1671-1729 -- Dutch female costume., and Mounted to 31 x 18 cm.