Title devised by cataloger., Subjects identified in later hand below image as D. Randal and Mother Hammond. Descibed in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits as fruit sellers in Cambridge., and Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes: Cambridge -- Trades: fruit sellers -- D. Randal, fl. 1768 -- Mother Hammond, fl. 1768.
"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
Title from item., Title, pintmaker, and imprint from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Proof before letters, without inscriptions on the flags or on the sash of the figure holding horse's reins, and without "Warwick Lane" plaque on the corner building., Earlier state of No. 4174 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: College of Physicians -- London: Warwick Lane -- Medical: doctors -- Farriers -- Tooth pullers (blacksmiths)., Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.; Bowditch's notes on mounting sheet., and Title and imprint added in ink at bottom of plate below image and inscriptions on flags added in pencil; added by an unknown hand.
