View of the Stocks Market, Poultry, looking from the west, City of London Size:XL: 120 x 80cm to their own mystification

to their own mystification

centred on the South Sea Company which had been founded in order to trade with Spanish America on the assumption that the War of the Spanish Succession would end soon with a favourable treaty allowing trading

'An old friend with a new face or the baron in disguise'

Beauty spots were used to hide scars from smallpox or venereal disease

With figures by the Royal Greenwich Observatory on the left

View of the Stocks Market, Poultry, looking from the west, City of London Size:XL: 120 x 80cm to their own mystificationView of the Stocks Market, Poultry, looking from the west, City of London, 1700. In the centre is the equestrian statue of King Charles II.