File:Stock exchange (BM 1866,1114.620).jpg

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Stock exchange   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Elizabeth Henrietta Phelps

After: William Phelps
Print made by: Francis Jukes
Published by: William Phelps
Title
Stock exchange
Description
English: The title is engraved on the façade of a one-storied, flat-roofed building, decorated with pilasters. Beneath the design is engraved; 'An Historical, Emblematical, Patriotical, and Political Print, representing the English Balloon, or National Debt in the year 1782, with a full View of the Stock Exchange, and its supporters the Financiers Bulls, Bears, Brokers, Lame Ducks, and others, and a proportionate Ball of Gold, the specific size of all the Money we have to pay it with supposing that to be Twenty Millions of Pounds sterling, the Gold, and Silver Trees entwined with Serpents, & upheld by Dragons, for the pleasure of Pluto & all his Bosom Friends.'


On the roof of the building a large globe (the debt) is supported on the shoulders of two bears and two bulls, all with human heads, representing the bulls and bears of the Stock Exchange. A much smaller globe within it represents the £20,000,000. The globes are framed in a twisted pillar, rising from each corner of the roof and turning to form an arch over the globe. The pillar is covered with conventional foliage and flowers and entwined with two serpents with women's heads; above these are two winged dragons with men's heads wearing crowns; these dart out barbed tongues and look up at a winged man wearing Roman armour and holding a key who stands on the globe. In the clouds in the upper left corner of the print is forked lightning. Beneath it is a small winged figure of Fame blowing a trumpet and holding an olive-branch. In the distance, behind the Stock Exchange building, and seen above its roof, is a landscape with a poverty-stricken woman with two children (right), and a ruinous building (left).
This emblematical design is inset in a realistic street-scene with houses. On the pavement, in front of the Stock Exchange and of an adjacent stationer's shop (right), well-dressed citizens are walking or standing in conversation. Three have webbed feet, showing that they are 'lame ducks', see BMSat 5835, 6273; they walk off to the left. 1 July 1785


Etching and aquatint and engraved writing
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 539 millimetres
Width: 410 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1866,1114.620
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A satire on the large national debt and on stock-jobbing. The stockbrokers met at New Jonathan's Coffee House in Change Alley, re-named Stock Exchange in 1773 when the name was written over the door. A new building was opened in 1802. Wheatley, 'London'.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1114-620
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