The Dutch financial crisis of 1720: the city of Amsterdam represents the voice of reason and resists disastrous speculation, while investors elsewhere are ruined . Etching, 1720.

The following is based on the British Museum online catalogue. An outdoor scene in which a desperate shareholder who has lost his money is about to kill himself with a dagger. He looks towards a man representing Reason, who holds a lyre and a mirror; beneath Reason's feet lie the bodies of two desperate shareholders representing Violence and Despair, one of whom has already killed himself. He points behind him to Prudence holding a shield with the letter 'Y' from which rays shine on four figures who fall back under her influence: Pride, Superstition, Wantonness, and Greed. The "Y" presumably represents the river Ij and stands for Amsterdam. In the background, lightning strikes above a crowd. Truth, enthroned in the clouds, looks calmly down at the confusion below