England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . bbled. Atthe other extremity of the picture, the infatuatedcrowd is hurrying forward to fill the three placesof its final destination,—the mad-house, the poor-house, and the hospital. The latter is called, in theEnglish print, The House of Fools; but, in several particulars of this kind,as well as in artisticalexecution, the originalengraving of Picart ismuch superior to theEnglish copy. Folly isrepresented with thespacious hoop-petticoat,patches, and other ex-travagant fashions of theday,—a
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . bbled. Atthe other extremity of the picture, the infatuatedcrowd is hurrying forward to fill the three placesof its final destination,—the mad-house, the poor-house, and the hospital. The latter is called, in theEnglish print, The House of Fools; but, in several particulars of this kind,as well as in artisticalexecution, the originalengraving of Picart ismuch superior to theEnglish copy. Folly isrepresented with thespacious hoop-petticoat,patches, and other ex-travagant fashions of theday,—a true female ex- FOLLY, IN THE GARB OF 1720. ^^Jg-^^ ^f ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^20. The Post-Boy of October 20, 1720, contains anadvertisement of the publication this day of apack of bubble cards, each containing an engravingrelating to one of the numerous companies formedor projected during the summer, and accompaniedwith an appropriate epigram, the lines by the authorof the South Sea Ballad and the Tippling Philoso-pher. In the Weekly Packet and in Mists WeeklyJournal of December 10, A new Pack of Stock-. 1720.] POLITICAL PLAYING-CARDS. 75 jobbing Cards is announced as published tliat day,Avith lines by the same author. The price of eachpack is stated to be two shillings and sixpence. Thenotion of political playing-cards was not altogethernew: in the reign of Charles II. a pack of suchcards had been published on the celebrated PopishPlot, which had caused almost as great an excite-ment throughout the country as the bubbles of theyear 1720. A set of bubble cards had also beenpublished in this latter year in Holland ; but whetherthe Dutch took the hint from the English, or theEnglish from the Dutch, it is not easy to determine. Both these packs of South Sea cards are pre-served in the collection of Mr. Burke. Each of thebubble cards contains an engraving representingthe object of one of the numerous companies thatgrew up round the greater bubble of the South Seascheme, with an epigram
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