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., and Window mounted to 27 x 35 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Three columns of verse in Dutch below image: Een Actie-Heer, die d'Actie-Wind Had by Scheeps-ladings ingeslágen ..., Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part., and Title translation on verso: Anatomy of the trade wind, or, Bombardio for the Devil.
A satire on the financial crisis of 1720 ... Time draws back the curtain to reveal what appears to be a large painting showing a 'Roomse Schilderij', the deathbed of Pope Clement XI in March 1721. In front of the bed stand John Law and the Old Pretender, who has lost his wig and hat; they hold strings attached to the sails of a windmill on the canopy of the bed, beside which are the French cock, the Imperial eagle and the lion of the Netherlands. A thread encircles the waists of Law, the Pretender and Cardinal Alberoni who stands on the far side of the bed. At the head of the bed stands a group of cardinals holding up the papal tiara as the future Innocent XIII reaches for it; his medallion portrait hangs above, with an angel driving away a devil as the background. The Director being pushed forward by the satyrs is now identified as Robert Knight, cashier of the South Sea Company; coins fall from his pocket. The town in the distance is now 'Vryplaats'. The two vignettes at the bottom of the sheet have been changed, that on the left, which still has the same design is now identified as the son of the Pretender (born in 1720); that on the right, now showing a wheel of fortune with Pope Innocent at the top holding a scourge which he directs towards Law who falls down at the left, and destroying with a lightning bolt a paper representing the constitution as the Pretender ascends on the right; Cardinal Alberoni is at the bottom of the wheel. Engraved Dutch title, inscriptions, and verse in three columns which differs from those in the original state
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Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Bombario, O death, you were no friend to law when you shot down Pope Clement., State, with depiction of a chamber containing pope's deathbed in the right portion of the image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse in Dutch at bottom of image, titled: 't Cashot van Mr. Knigt zuidzee actie Kassier en de roomse schildery en medali., Plate 33 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject -- Rome: allusion to "Romish picture" -- Architectural details: palace interior -- Freetown -- Popes -- Furniture: canopyed bed -- Papal deathbed -- Destruction of Constitution -- Crimes: South Sea -- France as crowing cock -- Rome as eagle -- England as lion -- Mississippi scheme -- Humbug -- Reference to Venetian trade -- Clergy -- Papacy: tiara and keys -- Father Time with hourglass -- Death as skeleton with sickle -- Portraits: Innocent XIII -- Satyrs with spears -- Capital punishment: gallows -- Bags of money -- Zanies -- Bladder: noisemaker -- Emblems: papal emblems -- Mottoes: S.P.Q.R. -- Schemes -- Symbols: wheel of fortune -- Symbols: tomb of death., and Watermark in the lower portion of sheet, countermark in the upper portion.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721, Innocent XIII, Pope, 1655-1724, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Alberoni, Guilio, Cardinal, 1664-1752, Knight, Robert, 1675-1744, and Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Cardinals, Emblems, National emblems, and Windmills
Title from texted engraved above image., Attributed to P.V.D. Berge in an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition., On one sheet with five columns of letterpress., "Pag.14."--Upper left corner of plate., Four lines of verse below image: Al wie zyn maag te veel met d'Acties heeft belaân ..., Plate from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., Numbered '45' in pencil in an unidentified hand., and Title translation on verso of mount: Spring water as medicine for the ill shareholder; mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Title from item., Plate with image is impressed above the plate with engraved verse., Three columns of verse in Dutch: Hier zieje klaar voor d'Actionisten vianens tolpoort afgebeelt ..., Plates numbered 39 in: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in the lower part of sheet, countermark N in the upper part.
Title from banner at top of image., Attributed to Berge in an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition., On one sheet with five columns of letterpress., Four lines of verse in Dutch engraved below design: De bubbel jongen die zyn schatten heest verspild ..., Plate from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., Mounted to 47 x 32 cm., and Title translation on verso of mount: The bubble boy hunting.
"A reversed copy of a broadside on the South Sea Bubble, satirrising various investment schemes of 1720; with an etching showing an outdoor, stage-like setting, in the centre a gentleman holding his hat in his R hand and a cane in his left hand, proabably representing the Mississippi Company, above him a scroll supsended from two balloons labelled West and East, on the left another man, representing John Law, pouring money into a money chest, in the background the sea with various stationary ships; with engraved title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Law laughing, the shareholders mourning and Mercury entreating., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch engraved below title: K'moet laggen zeker waar als ik myn schat aanzie ..., Plate 85 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Mounted to 45 x 36 cm., and Watermark.
Title in letterpress at top of sheet., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Impressed on sheet with five columns of letterpress., Two lines of verse in Dutch at bottom of design: De Actie Valk, die uit ging vliegen om te strópen ..., Plate 60 from(?): Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hawks -- Owls., Watermark., and Title translation on verso of mount: The marauding stock-hawk on the neck, and the bubble-rat under the claw of the owl. Mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Title from item., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: Alden bruy is 't in 't rumoer, Burger, Koopman, hoer en boer ..., Plate 37 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark in the left part of sheet., and Title translation on verso: The ruinous shareholder restored through his triumph over Harlequin.
"Dutch broadside on the South Sea Bubble and other investment schemes of 1720; with an engraving and an etching, in the centre an engraving showing an old winged man, holding a mirror in front of a young man who points at a globe representing the international speculation schemes; this image framed with an etching with a decorative border with Callot figures, strap-work and various objects, including two bird cages; with engraved title and inscriptions, and with letterpress title, verses and a list of the schemes in five columns."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved within image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Tomb of the ruined stockholders., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Four columns of letterpress verse in Dutch below plate, titled "Eere-titel, of Gordyn voor het Schouburg der Actie-Tafereelen ...", Plate 1 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Mounted to 49 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
