print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3478
- Title
- Object: A late Member
- Description
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Satire on the South Sea Bubble. The hump-backed figure of a zany (recalling Bombario, the Dutch emblem of financial bubbles, but perhaps more immediately representing John Aislabie), wearing a fool's cap and a large oriental sword, holds an empty purse upside down, saying "This is the service we have done ye Nation". Eight lines of verse beneath.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1721 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 176 millimetres
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Width: 100 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Stephens suggests that the zany represents John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, implicated in the South Sea Bubble.
Printed on the same sheet as an impression of BMSat 1720, 1868,0808.3477.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: South Sea Bubble 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3478