The Zuidzee Company with the Lust for Money on a chain, 1720, The shrouded Actionists presented in their honor (title on object), The Great Scene of Foolishness (series title), Stage on which the personifications of the Zuidzee Company and Credulity sit on a throne and keep the love of money in a chain. The love of money eats up coins and hands out paper shares. In the foreground and on the sides, wind merchants, Fortuna scatters papers in the clouds. With caption in four columns. Print 36 in the series Het Groote Tafereel der Foolheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel of 1720


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