De stervende Bubbel-Heer in den schoot van Madame Compagnie (The Dying Bubble-Lord in the Lap of Madame Company)

This Dutch engraving depicts the collapse of John Law's Mississippi Company scheme, which ruined thousands of investors across Europe. The print shows a dying man—representing the bubble economy itself—surrounded by grieving, angry, and opportunistic figures in a chaotic deathbed scene. The allegorical composition mixes social types: widows, merchants, and speculators. Created during the height of financial satire, this engraving belongs to the Northern European tradition of moral instruction through caricature and allegory, predating but parallel to Hogarth's work. The dense, dramatic etching style conveys both financial catastrophe and social disorder, establishing visual conventions for attacking financial fraud and greed that would persist through centuries of political printmaking.