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Bickham, George
Great Britain's wealth & safety. Dedicated to the Honourable the South Sea Company / George Bickham, engraver.
[1720]
etching and engraving
plate mark: 11 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (302 x 208 mm.); image: 11 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (291 x 200 mm.)
Peel 0172
Notes
Twelve lines of verse under image: 'Come all ye ruin'd Culls, now doom'd at last / To Scratch your Ears & mourn your Follies past, / In miniature, behold your South-Sea Fleet, - / Bound God knows where, to carry on the Cheat, / Well fraighted out, but, Fortune proving cross, / They spent their Cargo and return'd with loss; / As if the crafty Scheme at first was laid, - / To flourish more by Fraud than foreign Trade. / Two Horns of plenty, also, grace the Print, - / Only to make a Pair, that's all that in't; / If any should reflect, pray tell the Puppies / They are not Cuckolds Horns, but Cornu-copiae.'
Watermark: obscured - cello or double-bass shape.
Watermark: obscured - cello or double-bass shape.
Inscriptions/Markings
Border drawn around print in black writing ink. Lower left corner of inlay, in black writing ink: No. 285.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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