De Stropende Actie-Valk om Hals, en't Bubbel-Rotje onder de Klauuwen van den UIL

This Dutch engraving satirizes the South Sea Bubble financial collapse through anthropomorphic characters: a predatory owl clutches a falcon (representing speculation) while a smaller figure tumbles below. The circular composition frames the moral chaos of unchecked greed and market manipulation that devastated investors across Europe. Part of a robust tradition of political prints stemming from 17th-century emblem books and Dutch Golden Age satire, this work preceded Hogarth's mid-century innovations in sequential narrative. The hand-colored etching or engraving employs allegorical animals and dense Dutch verse to condemn both speculators and the financial instruments that ruined them—establishing visual and textual strategies that would echo through Gillray, Rowlandson, and the later comic tradition.