'A Satire on the South Sea Company', 1721. Artist: William Hogarth

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'A Satire on the South Sea Company', 1721. The South Sea Bubble (1711-1720), showing greed and speculation which preceded the bubble. 'Get rich quick' speculators are shown on the merry go round, while on the ground Honour and Honesty are flogged by Self Interest and Villainy. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).

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