"Satire on Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquarian, showing a tavern on the western edge of Oxford near Rewley with Abbey presented as an archaeological reconstruction. A large house with outbuildings in a garden where one man in academic robes approaches another who waits for him on a bench; various elements are lettered A - H. Above three separate views are presented as if drawings pinned to a wall: "The Plan of the Hall with the Tesellated Floor" representing a floor of sheep's bones mistaken by Hearne for an ancient mosaic; the gateway to the hall, labelled "Propylaeum"; three men arm in arm (Humphrey Wanley, Thomas Hearne and John Whiteside) outside the Sheldonian Theatre; in the centre, a shield with three large flagons; ribbons bearing a description of these "Antient Arms" and the title"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Antiquity Hall suburbanum Oxonienses and Antiqvity Hall suburbanum Oxon
Description:
Title from banner within image., Attribution to Vertue and publication place and date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's ms. annotations below plate mark., and Mounted to 36 x 44 cm.
"Satire on the financial crisis of 1720 (based, partly in reverse, on 1868,0808.9612) the courtyard of the Amsterdam Exchange now standing for stockbroking in London. The banner now lists 42 investment schemes, including "Robin's Fishery for Gudgeons", (an allustion to Robert Knight, cashier of the South Sea Company), and "Moore's most Royal Fishery" (alluding to Arthur Moore, director of the South Sea Company); in the colonnades and at the front stockbrokers and investors, including a man in middle Eastern dress, celebrate their successes or bemoan their losses as they circulate documents; in niches above are figures of Fortune and Plenty both casting papers labelled with the names of speculations; the clock is no longer labelled "Quinquenpoix". Engraved title, inscriptions, and English verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalog
Alternative Title:
Devil take the hindmost and Bubblers bubbled
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., A 'List of the Bubbles' in the image, and below the image with twenty-four lines of verse in three columns 'Come all ye mony'd Bites & Culls ... When jobbing in Change-Ally / Here Whig and Tory, Rich & Poor ... Whilst others fart with Squeezing / Here Fortune does her smiles dispense ... O Britain! mourn thy troubles!', and "J. Cole Sculp / Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster.'. There are early annotations in pen and ink against two investment schemes: "24 For Erecting Houses of Office in ye North of England and Scotland for ye convenience of Strangers and Travellers" is annotated "Ha! Ha!", and "37 Lending Money to necessitous Persons" "Hay" Day"., and Watermark in the upper portion of sheet. Countermark I V in the lower portion.
Publisher:
Sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Moore, Arthur, 1666?-1730., Knight, Robert, 1675-1744, and South Sea Company
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Financial crises, History, Politics and government, and Stock exchanges
Leaf 122. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Sketch of the times
Description:
Title engraved at top of image., Motto below title: Si populus vult decipi, decipiatur., "Later state." See No. 1611 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Numbered "23" in lower right corner of image., and Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet. Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Satire on the South Sea Bubble: mezzotint showing a mourner holding an empty money bag upside down. Above, an emblematic image with, from left to right, a failed investor holding a torn paper reading, "Poverty is at an end"; a man falling from clouds; a dove bearing a message saying "Nothing but Disappointments"; two men opening a strong box and finding nothing but bubbles inside; a total eclipse of the sun; another man falling from clouds; a man being pushed by the devil holding a note reading, "Speed my feet to the Mint". Below, a mock coat of arms with, as supporters, asses holding cornucopias through which men and money fall; as the crest, a Janus head; on the shield, four quarters, with castles in the air, a debtors' prison, three empty money bags and a beggar; as the motto, "Mar del Zud".On either side are lists of financial enterprises, actual and speculative, including the Pennsylvania Company (with verses mocking "Saints" and their "quaking friends"), insurance, mining, fisheries, textile and other manufactories, import schemes, and "making China in England", "making Iron with Pit Coal", "Engine to remove ye S. Sea House to Moorfields", (i.e., Bedlam), "Insurance against ye Venereal Disease", "Insurance of Maidenheads", Westley's "Actions" and Welby's "Golden Mines".Satire on the South Sea Bubble: mezzotint showing a mourner holding an empty money bag upside down. Above, an emblematic image with, from left to right, a failed investor holding a torn paper reading, "Poverty is at an end"; a man falling from clouds; a dove bearing a message saying "Nothing but Disappointments"; two men opening a strong box and finding nothing but bubbles inside; a total eclipse of the sun; another man falling from clouds; a man being pushed by the devil holding a note reading, "Speed my feet to the Mint". Below, a mock coat of arms with, as supporters, asses holding cornucopias through which men and money fall; as the crest, a Janus head; on the shield, four quarters, with castles in the air, a debtors' prison, three empty money bags and a beggar; as the motto, "Mar del Zud".On either side are lists of financial enterprises, actual and speculative, including the Pennsylvania Company (with verses mocking "Saints" and their "quaking friends"), insurance, mining, fisheries, textile and other manufactories, import schemes, and "making China in England", "making Iron with Pit Coal", "Engine to remove ye S. Sea House to Moorfields", (i.e., Bedlam), "Insurance against ye Venereal Disease", "Insurance of Maidenheads", Westley's "Actions" and Welby's "Golden Mines"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Englands folly
Description:
Title from text above center image., Questionable date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Design composed of a central image in mezzotint, smaller etched images above and below center image, and columns of etched text surrounding images., Reissue with different imprint; for earlier state published by Tho. Bowles in 1720, see no. 1621 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Mounted to 56 x 37 cm., and Collector's annotations on mount.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yd
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company
Subject (Topic):
Speculation, Business failures, Commerce, and Grief
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and "Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a Greek inscription and mock coat-of-arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Charles Christian the engraver and Humphrey Skelton the upholsterer, notorious for their bad tempers lived, perhaps together, in the house, which acquired the name Bear's Den Hall by virtue of their eccentricities., and Titled 'W. prospect of Bears Den Hall, in the county of Surrey.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and Putney.
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
View of a house supposedly near Putney Common, satirically called 'Bear's Den Hall', a rickety house with cracked plaster walls and a chimney-stack with broken brick, and with weeds growing from the cracks and on the roof. A key at the top references many of the features of the scene, including a bear is chained by the front door (B) at the left, birds in flight (K). The property is separated from the road in the foreground by a wicket fence, with a satircial armorial crest along the lower edge with portraits of Charles Christian and Skelton and Satire on social pretensions: a view of a dilapidated cottage set into a garden behind a wooden fence, with a mock coat-of-arms at the bottom.--From variant state in the British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Printmaker identified as Charles Christian Reisen in the British Museum online catalogue. An alternative attribution to George Vertue derives from a contemporary marginal note on an impression in the Royal Collection (RCIN 701972)., Early state, before Greek motto added at bottom of image. For a later state with this added text, see no. 1695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 2., Approximate date of publication from description of a later state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "This cottage was the country residence on Putney Heath of C. C. Reisen, seal engraver and painter, and Skelton, upholsterer, and kept at their joint expense"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1847,0713.15)., and "The print is not a satire, but rather a jokey plate made for private distribution to friends"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue (registration no.: 1866,1110.1468).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Reisen, Charles Christian, 1680-1725, and Skelton, Humphrey, active 1720s,
