Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 US naval chart

US naval chart

a work on fish and fishing

and two coastal profiles

and those which are in progress

stretching to the Confederation of the Rhine and the Duchy of Warsaw in the east and Madrid and Rome in the south

Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 US naval chartAfbeeldinge vant zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks Kop This Dutch fools cap map satirises the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720. Cartographic features are given punning names such as the River Bubble, the Island of Despair and the town of Madmandam, but the real Rivers Thames, Seine and Meuse are also marked, drawing attention to the scenes of the greatest folly. In Britain, the South Sea Company folded, wiping out innumerable fortunes after a period