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It is well established that prices for tulip bulb contracts rose and then fell between 1636 and 1637; however, such dramatic curves do not necessarily imply that an economic or speculative bubble developed and then burst. For the then tulip market to qualify as an economic bubble, the price of bulbs would need to have been mutually agreed and ...
Jan Brueghel the Younger's A Satire of Tulip Mania (c. 1640) A card from the South Sea Bubble. The term "bubble", in reference to financial crisis, originated in the 1711–1720 British South Sea Bubble, and originally referred to the companies themselves, and their inflated stock, rather than to the crisis itself.
English: Tulip price index from 1636-1637. The values of this index were compiled by Earl A. Thompson in Thompson, Earl (2007), "The tulipmania: ...
In 1886, a year after her death, it sold at auction for $6,000. Painted in 1882, The Tulip Folly was a commentary as well on the crash that year of the Paris bourse (stock exchange). It was to be the worst financial crisis in France in the nineteenth century and inaugurated a recession that lasted until the end of the decade.
1754 engraving of Old South Sea House, the headquarters of the South Sea Company, which burned down in 1826, [1] on the corner of Bishopsgate Street and Threadneedle Street in the City of London The Dividend Hall of South Sea House, 1810 Heraldic grouping above main entrance to the surviving South Sea House, Threadneedle Street, rebuilt after the fire of 1826 An early trade label of the South ...
"Night wind hawkers" sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble. (The Great Picture of Folly, 1720) A satirical "Bubble card"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. [1]
It has 2,200 sq ft (200 m 2) of floor space and the exhibits in the museum trace the history of the tulip from its origins in the Himalayas to its arrival in the court of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566). [4] The museum features an exhibit which explores the famous Tulip mania of the 1630s. The tumultuous Tulip trade led ...
Also known as the tulip break virus, lily streak virus, lily mosaic virus, or simply TBV, tulip breaking virus is most famous for its dramatic effects on the color of the tulip perianth, an effect highly sought after during the 17th-century Dutch "tulip mania". [3] Tulip breaking virus is a potyvirus. [4]