A monument dedicated to posterity in commemoration of [the] incredible folly transacted in the year 1720.
Bowles, Carington,1724-1793,publisher.
London : Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard,
[not before 1764]
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.
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 ...
East India Company.
East India Company.
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720.
South Sea Bubble, Grande-Bretagne, 1720.
Crowds.
England London.