Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 a work on fish and

a work on fish and fishing

The text appears to have been supplied by the theologian

of perhaps the most celebrated treatises of antiquity on hunting and fishing

and those which are in progress

52 x 68 cm

Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 a work on fish andAfbeeldinge vant zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks Kop This Dutch fools cap map satirises the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720. Cartographic features are given punning names such as the River Bubble, the Island of Despair and the town of Madmandam, but the real Rivers Thames, Seine and Meuse are also marked, drawing attention to the scenes of the greatest folly. In Britain, the South Sea Company folded, wiping out innumerable fortunes after a period