HOGARTH WILLIAM The South Sea Scheme

Sale 2555 - Lot 386

Price Realized: $ 938

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

HOGARTH, WILLIAM. The South Sea Scheme. Etched and engraved plate satirically exposing a collective panic and fortunes ruined over greed and financial speculation. Heavy laid paper, 11 1/2x17 inches sheet size, wide margins; light toning and minor surface soiling, numbered in early ink at upper right. Paulson 10 (state 5 of 7). London: Printed for John Bowles, 1751

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'English graphic satire really begins with Hogarth's Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme' -- John J. Richetti, The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780, page 85.