Title from caption at the top of the image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Fancy, the ruler of the Guild of Smoke-Sellers, paints here Mississippi, which wastes France's treasures., Plate with image is impressed above the plate with engraved verse., Three columns of verse in Dutch: De inbeelding maald hier schoon van schyn Het Missisippi, dog met verven ..., Plate 42 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in the lower part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the upper part.
"A reversed copy of a broadside on the South Sea Bubble, satirrising various investment schemes of 1720; with an etching showing an outdoor, stage-like setting, in the centre a gentleman holding his hat in his R hand and a cane in his left hand, proabably representing the Mississippi Company, above him a scroll supsended from two balloons labelled West and East, on the left another man, representing John Law, pouring money into a money chest, in the background the sea with various stationary ships; with engraved title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Law laughing, the shareholders mourning and Mercury entreating., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch engraved below title: K'moet laggen zeker waar als ik myn schat aanzie ..., Plate 85 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Mounted to 45 x 36 cm., and Watermark.
Title in letterpress above image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The dying bubble lord in the lap of Madame Company., Later state, without printmaker's name and with changes within the image. Cf. No. 1447 in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., On one sheet with two columns of letterpress., Plate 75 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis in the right part of sheet, countermark I V in the left part.
Title in letterpress at top of sheet., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Impressed on sheet with five columns of letterpress., Two lines of verse in Dutch at bottom of design: De Actie Valk, die uit ging vliegen om te strópen ..., Plate 60 from(?): Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hawks -- Owls., Watermark., and Title translation on verso of mount: The marauding stock-hawk on the neck, and the bubble-rat under the claw of the owl. Mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Title from item., Four columns of verse in Dutch below image: Alden bruy is 't in 't rumoer, Burger, Koopman, hoer en boer ..., Plate 37 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark in the left part of sheet., and Title translation on verso: The ruinous shareholder restored through his triumph over Harlequin.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: The wind buyers paid in wind, or, Those who are last will remain hanging on., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Three columns of verse in Dutch below image: Kom heeren, wevers, boeren, snyers ..., Plate 11 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part.
A design for the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Lucan's Pharsalia showing a small statue on a pedestal surrounded by piles of books (one with a pen and ink well on top) and a heraldric shield with helmet mounted at top and a garland draped on either side and through the design; acanthus leaves on scroll at the base
Alternative Title:
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberry Hill 1760
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount., Date and attribution based on publication: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX [1760]., Below the design a note in the artist's hand: The books to be letter'd. Phalaris! Free thinkers! Boyle, lectures! Horace [illegible] Terence! Milton! Manilius! Ep. Ad. Millium's sermons!, Portion of a watermark on lower left corner., and Formerly mounted at the lower half of leaf 13 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65. and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Arc memorial dressé au lieu de l'enterrement des actionistes consumés
Description:
Title engraved below image., Four columns of verse in Dutch on the left below image: De narrekap, die god merkuur door wind-negotie heeft gedrágen ..., Four columns of text in French on the right below image: Après que la tempête des actions est passée, Pallas ôte de bonne heure ..., Plate 59 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark in the right part of sheet.
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Imperfect; artist's signature has been mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Medical equipment -- Medical disease -- Male costume: Top boots -- Furniture: Pictures that amplify subject of print., Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 22.6 x 20.0 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark, and artist's signature has been mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout man seated by a table (left), one hand resting on a book as if sitting for a portrait. He holds a crutch, one gouty foot is bandaged; his hair is tousled, his face ludicrously contorted buy a frown. Four framed prints of men on horseback or leading horses are on the wall, which is also decorated by a pair of clumsy top-boots hanging from a nail. A saddle leans against the wall."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Frontispiece to: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787., Imperfect; artist's signature has been mostly erased from lower left corner of sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Medical equipment -- Medical disease -- Male costume: Top boots -- Furniture: Pictures that amplify subject of print., and Watermark, trimmed.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street