Strijd tussen de Smullende Bubbelberen en de Aanstaande Armoede (Battle between the Guzzling Bubble-Bears and Impending Poverty)

This Dutch engraving satirizes the South Sea Bubble financial collapse through allegorical combat. Corpulent speculators—the "Bubble-Bears"—wielding weapons of excess face skeletal Poverty advancing with her forces. The composition inverts military grandeur into economic folly, populated by merchants, women, and allegorical figures whose fates hinge on market collapse.

The print exemplifies early-18th-century financial satire, employing the dense, moralizing engraving tradition that would evolve through Hogarth and later caricaturists. This moral-economic critique became a standard vocabulary for pictorial satire, foundational to modern political cartooning.