Great Britain's wealth & safety. Dedicated to the Honourable the South Sea Company / George Bickham, engraver.

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George Bickham
Great Britain's wealth & safety. Dedicated to the Honourable the South Sea Company / George Bickham, engraver.
[1720]
Peel 0172
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[1720]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Border drawn around print in black writing ink. Lower left corner of inlay, in black writing ink: No. 285.

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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.

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