A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720 [graphic].[not before 1764]engTitle from item.Originally published by Thomas Bowles in 1720. See the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.Publication date of this edition inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Numbered in lower right corner: 89.Nine lines of text below image: Here is represented Fortune conducted by Folly who is well known, by her ordinary attributes and her ample hoop petticoat, which is also a folly of the times. The chair is drawn by the principal company's who began this pernicious trade as [the] Mississippi with a wooden leg, South Sea with a sore-leg and a ligament upon another ...Later state, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 1629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: car -- Personifications: Fame -- Folly -- Bank of England -- Assurance -- East India Company as a Chinese man -- Mississippi Company as a native man with a wooden leg -- West Indies Company as a native (Indian) man -- Devil -- Emblems: serpent -- Furniture: table -- Ladderback chairs -- Mottoes: desinit in luctum species formosa superne.