print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- S,2.4
- Title
- Object: The South Sea Scheme
- Description
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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
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1721
- Dimensions
-
Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 324 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1998 Jan-April, USA, Berkeley AM, Hogarth and his Times
1998 June-Aug, Ottawa, NGC, Hogarth and his Times
1998 Sep-Nov, USA, NY, Columbia Univ, Hogarth and his Times
- Associated events
- Associated Event: South Sea Bubble 1720
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- S,2.4
