A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].

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Description

Title
A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].
Contributor
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1764]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
Description
Title from item.
Originally published by Thomas Bowles in 1720. See the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publication date of this edition inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Numbered in lower right corner: 89.
Nine lines of text below image: Here is represented Fortune conducted by Folly who is well known, by her ordinary attributes and her ample hoop petticoat, which is also a folly of the times. The chair is drawn by the principal company's who began this pernicious trade as [the] Mississippi with a wooden leg, South Sea with a sore-leg and a ligament upon another ...
Later state, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 1629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: car -- Personifications: Fame -- Folly -- Bank of England -- Assurance -- East India Company as a Chinese man -- Mississippi Company as a native man with a wooden leg -- West Indies Company as a native (Indian) man -- Devil -- Emblems: serpent -- Furniture: table -- Ladderback chairs -- Mottoes: desinit in luctum species formosa superne.
Watermark: Band.
Window mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
Provenance
Suckling ; June 1956.
Extent
1 print : sheet 25 x 34 cm.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
764.00.00.45+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1764
Etchings England London 1764
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
East India Company.
Subject (Topic)
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Crowds
Subjects
East India Company
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Crowds
England > 1764
England > London > 1764

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8437728
Object ID (OID)
10713240

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