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Description: Caricature from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid (The Great Picture of Folly) showing the "busy night-wind hawker with his magic lantern," a promoter of the Mississippi Company and similar schemes. The word "actieuse" has the double meaning of "active" and "dealing in acties" (company shares)
Title: Bubble.folly
Credit: Source (specific): http://lids.hul.harvard.edu:8080/lids/lids?id=1280446&buttons=y&returnurl=http://library.hbs.edu/hc&caption=Historical+Collections,+Baker+Library,+Harvard+Business+School Source (1-level up): http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/recreationandarts/tafereel.html Source (Main site): http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/index.html Plate 16.
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