This engraving is a Dutch satire on John Law of Lauriston, promoter of the Mississippi Company and other bubble schemes of the year 1720. It is no 21 in vol 1 of 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', a collection of Dutch satires on the Mississippi, South

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