The bubblers bubbl'd, or, The devil take the hindmost [graphic] / J. Cole sculp.

Published/Created:

[London]
Sold by the printsellers of London & Westminster
[1720]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 34.8 x 27.6 cm, on sheet 37 x 27.6 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1625

Notes:

Title etched above image.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides.
A 'List of the Bubbles' in the image, and below the image with twenty-four lines of verse in three columns 'Come all ye mony'd Bites & Culls ... When jobbing in Change-Ally / Here Whig and Tory, Rich & Poor ... Whilst others fart with Squeezing / Here Fortune does her smiles dispense ... O Britain! mourn thy troubles!', and "J. Cole Sculp / Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster.'. There are early annotations in pen and ink against two investment schemes: "24 For Erecting Houses of Office in ye North of England and Scotland for ye convenience of Strangers and Travellers" is annotated "Ha! Ha!", and "37 Lending Money to necessitous Persons" "Hay" Day".
Suckling; January 1958; Acquisitions no.: 958-1-1-1.
Watermark in the upper portion of sheet. Countermark I V in the lower portion.

Abstract:

"Satire on the financial crisis of 1720 (based, partly in reverse, on 1868,0808.9612) the courtyard of the Amsterdam Exchange now standing for stockbroking in London. The banner now lists 42 investment schemes, including "Robin's Fishery for Gudgeons", (an allustion to Robert Knight, cashier of the South Sea Company), and "Moore's most Royal Fishery" (alluding to Arthur Moore, director of the South Sea Company); in the colonnades and at the front stockbrokers and investors, including a man in middle Eastern dress, celebrate their successes or bemoan their losses as they circulate documents; in niches above are figures of Fortune and Plenty both casting papers labelled with the names of speculations; the clock is no longer labelled "Quinquenpoix". Engraved title, inscriptions, and English verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalog.

Variant Titles:

Devil take the hindmost
Bubblers bubbled

Associated Names:

Cole, James, active 1715-1774 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Financial crises -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Knight, Robert, 1675-1744
Moore, Arthur, 1666?-1730
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
South Sea Company
Stock exchanges

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1714-1727

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1720
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1720
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

720.06.21.01+

Orbis Record:

8893827

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr00404

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10700159

PID:

digcoll:549845