Print Description
Original antique broadside with verse showing John Law on the left throwing money in a treasury chest. In the middle a shareholder mourning and in the sky Mercury begging the gods for help.
Made by an anonymous engraver after John Law.
Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 33.5 x 43 cm (13.19 x 16.93 inch). Image size: 29 x 33.5 cm. (11.42 x 13.19 inch).
Condition: fair, given age. Horizontal middle fold. Foxing. Folds and creases in margin. Tears in margin restored. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
STOCK SATIRE-LAW LAUGHING-INVESTORS MOURNING-GODS | RBOS-T.30-LARGE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published 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. (The Great Mirror of Folly), which is actually a collection on all printsmaps and text, published in 1720, satirizing the Englishman John Law, his Mississippi Company, and the international land and trading speculation in worthless shares of the South Sea Bubble of 1719-1720, which resulted in an international scandal.
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