'The Bubbler's Mirrorour, or England's Folley (grief)', 1720. Artist: Unknown

'The Bubbler's Mirrorour, or England's Folley (grief)', 1720. Artist: Unknown

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'The Bubbler's Mirrorour, or England's Folley (grief)', 1720. Shares in the South Sea Company rose through overheated speculation causing the South Sea Bubble, when the share price collapsed after reaching a peak in September 1720. 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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