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2.
- Published / Created:
- 1722 October 25.
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss File 153
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Dividend receipt addressed "To Mr. Lockyer accomptant at the South Sea house" and annotated in the lower right by "Rich. Sarum". The body of the document reads: "Pray pay to the bearer Mr. Daniel Gell my share of the midsumer [sic] dividend due on two thousand four hundred forty four pounds eight shillings 10d.1/2 capital stock in the South Sea Company, and this shall be a sufficient warrant. Westmr. Octr. 25 1722".
- Description:
- The South Sea Company was granted a monopoly to supply African slaves to the islands in the South Seas and South America. The stock rose quickly until around 1720 when it collapsed (known as the South Sea Bubble)., In English., Title from auction description., In brown ink, tipped along upper margin into a folder., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dividend receipt from the South Sea Company : manuscript
3.
- Published / Created:
- 1720.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in undentified hand, containing a proposal for the creation of a trade company in the city of Middelburg. After the introduction follow 19 terms and conditions which include the appointment of commissioners and directors, and the assembling of capital to support the company
- Description:
- In Dutch., Title from heading., Layout: single column of varying length., Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard., and Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the third manuscript in the volume and number 17 of 63 items bound together.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Middelburg (Netherlands), Europe, and Netherlands
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Colonial companies, Commercial crimes, Speculation, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Na dat het voorgaande concept tot het opregten in de stad Middelburg, van eene maatschappy tot het assureren van scheepen soo kwam dit volgende in het ligt : manuscript
4.
- Published / Created:
- between July and December, 1720.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, containing different merchantships and subscriptions related to the city of Rotterdam in the year 1720. Page [1] contains a proposal for the creation of pooled capital or "samengevoegd kapitaal" followed by a list of 7 conditions. Page [2] discusses the election of directors of a merchantship or "coopmanschap" followed by a list of terms of subscription or "conditien." Pages [3] and [4] contain decisions made by the merchantship in July regarding the premiums of certain properties in Rotterdam (lasting until December).
- Description:
- In Dutch., Title from heading., Layout: single column of varying length., Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard., and Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the first manuscript in the volume and number 6 of 63 items bound together.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Netherlands, and Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Colonial companies, Commercial crimes, Speculation, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nademaal het assureeren van scheepen en coopmanschappen soo voor de gevaren van de zee, van die oorlogh, en pirateryen, nootsakelyk is voor de negotie en zeevaart, en dat men siet in Engeland een maatschappy daar toe opgeregt, om door een groot samengevoegd capitaal, die geene zoo sig willen doen assureeren, volstrektelyk gerust te stellen... : manuscript
5.
- Published / Created:
- 1720.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, containing a proposal for the creation of pooled capital or "een groot samengevoegd kapitaal" in the city of Delft in the year 1720, in imitation of the city of the Rotterdam which had just instituted the same capital in its city. The proposal is followed by a series of sixteen terms of subscription or "conditien." Those who wish to are called to sign up on July 11, 1720 at 9 am in Delft
- Description:
- In Dutch., Title from heading., Layout: single column of varying length., Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard., and Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the second manuscript in the volume and number 8 of 63 items bound together.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Netherlands, and Delft (Netherlands)
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Colonial companies, Commercial crimes, Speculation, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Overmits het assureren van scheepen en koopmanschapen soo voor de gevaren van de zee, van die van oorlog als zeeroveryen, noodsakelijk is voor koophandel en zeevaard, en dat men siet in Engeland een maatschappy daar toe opgeregt en self onlangs tot Rotterdam, om door een groot samengevoegd kapitaal, die geene die sig willen assureren volstrektelyk gerust te stellen, ... : manuscript
6.
- Published / Created:
- anno 1720.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- BEIN 2006 Folio 21: Number 55 of 63 items bound together. Laid into sheets measuring 39 x 26 cm., BEIN 2023 1260: Number 2 of 12 titles bound together in contemporary marbled boards with engraved bookplate ("Ex Libris" with unidentified monogram)., Imprint from colophon., and Signatures: A⁴ (A4 blank).
- Publisher:
- By Pieter Visser, boekverkooper op de Lely-gragt
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Investments, Speculation, and Stock exchanges
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Redewisseling en consideratien over den staet en rykdom der Zuid-Zee-Compagnie : voor zo veel ze haar capitaal verkrygt door vernieuwde en verhoogde inscriptien
7.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 646 808 M58 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3 Microcosm of London.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior of the Dividend Hall, in South Sea House, London; in foreground men sit around small table, or lean informally against bar, other people in room including two women and a gentleman entering on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 102., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 267.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Feb. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Organizations' facilities and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > South Sea House, Dividend Hall [graphic]
8.
- Creator:
- Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1723 and 1733]
- Call Number:
- Topos L847 no. 99+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Facade of the house, on Threadneedle Street, with grand arched entrance leading through to courtyard; a carriage leaving on the right, elegantly dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state of the same composition
- Description:
- Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Variant (earlier?) state of a print published with the imprint "London: Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill." See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 36 x 51 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by John Bowles at Mercers Hall in Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- South Sea Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings and Commercial facilities
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The South Sea House in Bishopsgate Street [graphic]
9.
- Creator:
- Cole, James, active 1715-1774, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1720]
- Call Number:
- 720.06.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bubblers bubbl'd, or, The devil take the hindmost [graphic]
10.
- Published / Created:
- [1793?]
- Call Number:
- 793.00.00.23++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bubblers mirrour, or, Englands folly [graphic].
