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English: Satire on the cover-up of those in power who were implicated in the South Sea Bubble and other financial scandals; a cheap version of BM Satires 1710. A grand room with two long windows and a pier glass between. Much of the room is obscured by a large screen, but figures can be discerned behind it: on the right three men, one seated writing at a table, is reflected in the glass; on the left, a woman (presumably the Duchess of Kendal) hands a letter to a man (presumably Robert Knight), booted and spurred and carrying a horse whip; shadows of other women fall on the wall to left, below a view of the "Joyfull Entry" of Knight in a carriage into Antwerp (this is a satirical allusion to the "Joyeuse Entrée" of Emperor Charles V into Antwerp in 1514 when he confirmed the privileges of the city under which Knight was allowed to remain rather than being extradited for trial in England). The screen itself is ornamented with eight relevant scenes: a coach carrying a family is driven by a devil, another devil acting as postillion and captions in Spanish and English reading, "Al hombre vergonçoso el diablo le truxo al Palatio", "A Man should learn to Sail with all Winds"; "Gold is Powerful" in which a man presents another with a list of sums of large money paid to people identified by fictitious Roman names while a snake states "A Man was Hang'd for saying the Truth"; "O Rico, O Pinjado", a group of gentlemen are seated beneath a tree from which hang nooses, one says, "If He [Knight] comes we are all undone"; a map of the British Isles surrounded by the South Sea; "For them that deserv it", a gallows with a cart delivering men to be hanged; "Cheat whom we can", foxes representing South Sea directors lure a group of men and women to purchase stock with the promise that "You'll all be Lords & Ladies"; "Ill Conduct", a group of men tear apart a map of the British Isles, axes and nooses hanging over their heads; "Patience upon Force", Knight stands in chains on the shore at Antwerp while across the Channel English people, holding nooses and a dagger call to him to "Come if you dare", lettering in arabic script above. The floor is patterned in wood of different shades. 1721
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