The rise of the stocks [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published 29th May 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
[29 May 1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : aquatint on laid paper ; plate mark 290 x 208 mm, on sheet 31 x 22.4 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6959

Notes:

Title etched below image.
The Lewis Walpole Library: Horace Walpole refers to subject.
De Grey.
On verso in pen in comtemporary hand: Prints of Sayers.

Abstract:

"A bearded Jew (left) points out to Fox and North the high price of stocks; he holds out to North (right) a paper inscribed '3 Per Cents Consol done at 75 for ye next opening'. North holds out his hands in dismay. Fox stands between and behind them, looking gloomily at North. The Jew stands behind a counter on which hangs a paper, 'India Stock 162 Bank Stock 241 India Bonds 50 [ ? or 59] Prem. Navy & Victualg Bills Per Cent Discount Exchequer Bills Prem Per Cent Scrip'. At North's feet lies a paper headed 'Mr Sheridans Speech upon Mr Pitts Plan of Finance'. The background is the wall of a room with arched recesses or alcoves."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823 [Artist]
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792 [Publisher]

Topics:

East India Company
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Jews, depicted
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789 -- Humor

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1786
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1786

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

786.05.29.02.2 Impression 1

Orbis Record:

7733133

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05995

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728134

PID:

digcoll:550376