Register van de prenten in Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid (Index of Prints in The Great Mirror of Folly)

This index page from The Great Mirror of Folly catalogues thirty-four satirical prints mocking the South Sea and Mississippi financial bubbles. The ornamental border—featuring allegorical figures, alchemical vessels, and symbolic objects—frames two columns of numbered entries in Dutch, identifying each print's subject. The engraved decoration itself performs satire: alchemists' apparatus and fool's symbols suggest the speculative schemes within. This compilation exemplifies early 18th-century print satire, where sequential numbered engravings exposed public vice and financial folly to a broad audience. Such picture-sheets and bound collections established the visual language and moral mission that would animate political caricature from Hogarth onward, teaching viewers to read image sequences as narrative critique.