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Items in Commerce Goes to Hell

  • a group of grotesquely interpreted wealthy people is rowed by a strange demon with a vase on his head and birds flying around him

    Commerce Goes to Hell Introduction

  • a cart containing Satan, Bombario, and other miscreants is pulled by toads through a crowd that grapples for stock shares coming from the cart

    The Shop of the Stock Boys, Gives Pleasure and Sorrow in Stealing

  • multiple scenes fill a broadside sheet, there are men with stones being removed from their heads, rear ends, and abdomens

    Many Have Stones in Their Heads

  • A small boat with six well fed and seemingly wealthy passengers is rowed by an eerily thin man in peasants' clothes with an empty vase and birds about his head

    The Blue Boat

  • a crowd of five deeply hunched figures surround a figure who's bottom is exposed. On his shirt tails is the title of the book: Varie Figure Gobbi

    Frontispiece from Varie Figure Gobbi

  • a large arch depicts John Law at its top with four other scenes of trading, both in stock and in the new world

    Memorial Arch Erected at the Place of Burial of Destroyed Actionists

  • a tower stands in the background while angels fly above. In the foreground men trade stocks- ignoring the two seemingly dead men and the one plummeting to his death from a second story window

    The Tower of Babel of the Confused Stockholders

  • A carousel stands in the center of this image while people are broken on the wheel to the right and a Satan figure butchers and hands out bits of Fortuna's body on the left

    An Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme

  • A giant-scale man - Robert Knight- stands on a small ship rowed by devils, he is also surrounded by flying devils and appears to be entering the gates of hell

    Lucipher’s New Row-Barge

  • a handwritten, cursive document listing all expenses incurred on account of prisoners taken due to the bubble scheme

    Tower of London prison expense report

  • a title page reading: The Speech of the Right Honorable John Aislabie Esq. Upon his Defense Made in the House of Lords Against the Bill for Raising Money Upon the Estates of the South Sea Directors on Wednesday the 19th of July, 1721

    The Speech of the Right Honourable John Aislabie, esq.

  • a group of grotesquely interpreted wealthy people is rowed by a strange demon with a vase on his head and birds flying around him

    Commerce Goes to Hell