Prijscourant der Actien, of de Nieuwmodese Actiekramer (Price List of Shares, or The Fashionable Share Trader)

This Dutch woodcut satirizes the speculative mania of the South Sea Bubble era, when ordinary citizens gambled fortunes on stock shares. The broadsheet lists absurd fictional companies alongside mock-serious pricing, while the header depicts a crowded market scene of traders and duped investors. The text below puns mercilessly on Amsterdam's commercial pretensions and the gullibility of share-buyers. Part of a rich tradition of satirical prints—from Hogarth to Gillray—that used popular imagery to mock financial fraud and public folly, this work exemplifies how woodcut broadsides functioned as the newspapers and comic sheets of early modern Europe, combining crude humor with sharp political and economic commentary accessible to common folk.