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c. 1720

Plate

Artist/maker unknown

This plate is from a series of six known as the "Great Scene of Folly" and may have been intended to caution Dutch investors against disastrous financial schemes. Translated from the Dutch, the inscription reads, "By God, lost all my shares."

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