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Items in John Law, Rakish Financier

  • John Law standing in a french garden in a large wig and the style of long three piece suit popular at the time

    John Law, Rakish Financier Introduction

  • five men, two women, and two children stand in a hellish surrounding while each holds a globe on their shoulders

    The Actious Atlas of Fashionable Paper, with its Accomplices and the Little Bowling Game

  • John Law is seated on a donkey with three devils nearby, meanwhile people clamor for shares coming from the donkey's rear end

    Law, Like Another Don Quixote, Sits on Sancho’s Ass, Being Everyone’s Fool

  • John Law sits atop a cloud with a windmill on his head while stock shares pour out from a bag beneath him and investors whisper in his ear

    Fair of the Wholesale Wind-Peddler

  • John law standing in a French garden wearing a large wig and long suit popular at the time. His right hand clutches a walking cane and a sword hangs on his left hip

    Mr. John Law, King’s Councilor in All Affairs, Controller-General of Finances in 1720

  • this carnival-esque scene feature a stylized John Law at center with the head of a coin while all those around him clamor for money

    Reflection of the Mercenary World, in the Beginning of the Rise and Fall of Stock Trading

  • Book open to title page that reads: The Chimera, or the French Way of Paying National Debts Laid Open Being an Impartial Account of the Proceedings in France for Raising a Paper Credit and Settling the Mississippi Stock

    The Chimera: or, The French Way of Paying National Debts, Laid Open

  • Title page of book reading: Money and Trade Considered with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money

    Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money

  • a collection of four medals displaying John Law's bust, a Latin inscription, a man smoking while defecating coins, and john law blowing stock shares with bellows

    Medals

  • John Law standing in a french garden in a large wig and the style of long three piece suit popular at the time

    John Law, Rakish Financier