Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 and those which are in

and those which are in progress

The text appears to have been supplied by the theologian

At the time the map was made

of perhaps the most celebrated treatises of antiquity on hunting and fishing

and two coastal profiles

Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 and those which are inAfbeeldinge 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