B. Picart fecit 1720.
Etching and engraving. Plate 279 x 361mm (11 x 14¼").
Satire on Law's Mississippi scheme: personifications of various elements involved in the scheme (Mississippi, Compagnie des Indes, Bank, etc) dragging a chariot driven by Madness and running over True Trade; on the chariot stands Fortune, who is throwing shares, snakes and fool's hats at the crowd; above her, the devil blows bubbles; the chariot leads a crowd to a building with three doors (hospital for the mad, the sick and the poor); on the left people gathered around a standing man holding a project for a trade company.
[Ref: 52254] £260.00
Etching and engraving. Plate 279 x 361mm (11 x 14¼").
Satire on Law's Mississippi scheme: personifications of various elements involved in the scheme (Mississippi, Compagnie des Indes, Bank, etc) dragging a chariot driven by Madness and running over True Trade; on the chariot stands Fortune, who is throwing shares, snakes and fool's hats at the crowd; above her, the devil blows bubbles; the chariot leads a crowd to a building with three doors (hospital for the mad, the sick and the poor); on the left people gathered around a standing man holding a project for a trade company.
[Ref: 52254] £260.00