Tijssens, Gijsbert, Northern Netherlands, The Great Scene of Folly, The World's Doing and Doing, Is maar een Malle Moolen, The World's Mallemolen, 1720, The World's Mallemolen. A merry-go-round in which the wind traders standing in the boxes try to get their hands on stock notes that are being thrown by figures (a farmer, Indians from the South Seas, Mississippi and the West Indies) standing on the posts of the mill. In the foreground other gentlemen are waiting for their ride in the merry-go-round, on the right desperate activists. In the background left Vianen, on the right ships at sea. With a caption in four columns by Philadelphus. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 10) of The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons on the Wind Trade or Action Trade of 1720., print, cartoon, books, Frederik Muller History Plates, height 313 mm, width 440 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1720 - 1720, paper, etching, etchings, Dutch, 1693 - 1732, writer