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1. A true picture of the famous skreen describ'd in the Londn. journal no. 85 & multis alijs [graphic]
- Creator:
- Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1721]
- Call Number:
- 721.00.00.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Ten lines of verse in two columns titled "The advice" below image., Ten lines of description in one column in lower right of plate: A famous screen now to be sold to the best bidder ... .Londn. Journl. no. 89., Plate from: The London journal, 1721., and Temporary local subject terms: Maps: Antwerp -- South Sea Bubble -- The Duchess of Kendall.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Aislabie, John, 1670-1742 and Craggs, James, 1686-1721
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A true picture of the famous skreen describ'd in the Londn. journal no. 85 & multis alijs [graphic]
2. Lucipher's new row-barge [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1721]
- Call Number:
- 721.05.13.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Lucifer's new row-barge
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image., Publication date in the British Museum catalogue: 13 May 1721., A copy, with added price statement, of no. 1714 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Eighteen lines of verse in three columns below image: Go on vile traytors! Glory in your sins, And grow profusely rich by wicked means ..., and 'Price. 6.d'--Lower right corner of plate.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lucipher's new row-barge [graphic].
3. [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1768 and 1779]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., Date range for publication based on publisher's street address. John Bowles gave his address as 13 Cornhill between 1768 and 1779; see British Museum online catalogue., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., Price erased in state 5 and new publication line added in state 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 8 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- Financial crises and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
4. [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1721]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title and state from Paulson., Publication information inferred from 3rd state., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., "Price 1 shilling."--Lower right., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss to text at bottom margin., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: South-Sea. In pencil below: See Nichol's book, 3d edit. p. 122., and On page 8 in volume 1.
- Publisher:
- Mrs. Chilcot and R. Caldwell?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Financial crises and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The South Sea scheme] [graphic]
