A cart laden with coins in sacks is dragged by a group of devils who are lashed by men armed with whips; representing William Wood's scheme to improve the Irish coinage. Engraving, 1724.
- Date:
- 1724
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- 575565i
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Tied to the tail of the car is Poverty, weeping and leading a child by the hand. Hibernia sits weeping to the right on a hill before a group of gentlemen. Mercury descends from above. William Wood was granted a patent in 1722 to improve the coinage in Ireland but the scheme was abandoned
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Dublin ; Cork : [1724]
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1 print : engraving ; sheet 25.6 x 35.3 cm
Lettering
Wood's halfpence. Drive on ye bold projectors, e'er too late ... and from ye heavy curse their country free.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, Vol II, London 1978, no. 1749
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Wellcome Collection 575565i
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