Catalogue information

LastDodo number
3381165
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
De Inventeur der Wind-negotie Op zijn Zeege-kar
Artist
Technique
Year
1720
Print run
Publisher
Dimensions
32,7 x 42,1 cm
Printing office
Details

John Law, the inventor of the wind religion, pulled in his trophy cart by two French roosters. To the right the Mississippi sentry in a tower, in the foreground the crippled South Sea Company courier. Printed on the sheet on either side of the plate is a verse in two columns. Copy after print 46 in the series Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720. Etching with text in letterpress.

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