[PLAYING CARDS ? CIRCUS]?TOVERKAART OF GENEES MIDDLE DER WIND-BREUKEN VANT ZUID WEST EN DE UITVAART VAN CARTOUCHE.?Dutch, ca. 1720. Etched sheet of 18 figures, lettered A-S (except J), intended to be cut out as playing cards, each with a full-length illustration of a circus or street performer, including equilibrists, acrobats, animal trainers, and mountebanks. 11? ? 14 5/8" (plate); sheet 15 3/8 ? 18?" (some mended tears at edges, outside printed area). The cards were a satire on the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, financial crises of 1720 (BM Satires 1690).