Engravings

This illustrative page from "The Great Mirror of Folly", 1720, was a volume of text with 76 engraved plates, documenting the international joint-stock scandal instigated by John Law. This great "Theater of Folly", representing the origin, progress, and downfall of the South Sea Bubble in France, England and Holland, is a collection of engraved plates with caricatures of the schemes of John Law and the Mississippi Company that lured clients to invest in establishing colonies in Louisiana and Canada with fatal results. Text below the image is in Dutch.

Engraving, image size 4 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches.

Engraving, image size 7 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches, after a painting by Kuipers, plate signed l.r. "N. v.d. Meer Jun:fec." and "D. Kuipers inv. & Del." l.l.

Engraving, image size 6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches, c. 1875, lettered below the image, "Dessine et Grave par Paul Girardet" and titled "Route du St. Gothard, Canton d'Uri."

Wood engraving after the painting by Vermeer, image size 6 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, 1918, plate signed.

This engraving by Charles Grignion measures 8 x 13 3/4 inches. Published by Gravelot in 1774. "Published as the Act directs by T. Sayer the 12 April 1774" is on the lower margin.

Engraving by Alfred Jones after the painting by William Sidney Mount, image size 12 1/2 x 16 inches, sheet size 17 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches, published in 1843 by the Apollo Association, printed by J. Dalton.

Engraving by Paolo Toschi after Correggio, image size 14 1/4 x 9 inches, c. 1840s, printed by Frassinetti.

Wood engraving after the painting by Mariano Fortuny Marsal, image size 7 x 5 inches, 1912, plate signed and dated.

Engraving, image size 7 5/8 x 5 1/16 inches, 1909, after a painting by Francois Gerard, plate signed l.l. "Tim Cole Sc. 1909", pencil signed l.r. "Timothy Cole".