Eight beggars or ruined investors lamenting their losses in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Engraving, 1720, after P. Quast.

The following is based on the British Museum catalogue. An investor, wearing sixteenth-century dress and a flask at his feet, is bullied and mocked by grotesque figures: a man with a lantern suspended from his cod-piece, an old peasant woman, a disabled beggar, and four country men, one with a long nose, another threatening him with a pitchfork. The inscription at the investor's feet begins, "Na dat ik alles heb verloren, Moet ik het bitter schempen horen Van dit Canaille, dat ontzind, Hun blijdschap in mijn droefheid vind..." (After I have lost everything I have to listen to abuse from this rabble which finds pleasure in my sorrow). On the ground in front of the central figure is a urine flask, suggesting (with his costume) that in Quast's original print this man was a quack doctor