Anatomie der Wind-Negotie, of Bombario voor den Drommel

This Dutch engraving satirizes the South Sea Bubble financial collapse through a crowded outdoor fair scene. Figures in period dress trade in absurdities—wind, bubbles, and worthless schemes—depicted with precise crosshatching typical of early eighteenth-century print satire. The composition recalls Hogarth's moral tableaux: multiple zones of folly unfold across the plate, each figure a type embodying greed or gullibility. Dutch and German broadsheet satire of this era targeted speculation and merchant fraud through dense, legible scenes that anticipated the sequential narrative logic of later comic strips. Text verses below explain each transgression, merging word and image as social commentary. The print descends from Northern Renaissance tradition and looks forward to Gillray's political caricatures.