{"title":"Memento Mordant: Etching Bubbles and Biting Time","authors":"R. Ezra","doi":"10.1086/720978","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The tercentenary of the 1720 South Sea Bubble saw a fl urry of interest in The Bubblers Medley ( fi g. 1), a satirical trompe-l ’ oeil print published by Thomas Bowles II and sold at his London shop soon after the stock market collapsed. 1 Yet for all the attention paid to the medley ’ s printed items — news clippings, illustrated verse, a playing card — one fi gure got short shrift: the naked boy blowing soap bubbles in the lower right-hand corner. 2","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":"7 1","pages":"197 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720978","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The tercentenary of the 1720 South Sea Bubble saw a fl urry of interest in The Bubblers Medley ( fi g. 1), a satirical trompe-l ’ oeil print published by Thomas Bowles II and sold at his London shop soon after the stock market collapsed. 1 Yet for all the attention paid to the medley ’ s printed items — news clippings, illustrated verse, a playing card — one fi gure got short shrift: the naked boy blowing soap bubbles in the lower right-hand corner. 2