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The South Sea Scheme   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Hogarth

Published by: Mrs Chilcot
Published by: Richard Caldwell
Title
The South Sea Scheme
Description
English: 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. c.1721
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Date 1721
date QS:P571,+1721-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 263 millimetres
Width: 328 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1841,0809.230
Notes An old annotation in a copy of Stephens's catalogue (P&D Tt.6.31) records that the copper plate was in the possession of Robert Wilkinson of Fenchurch Street in 1817.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1841-0809-230
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