Satire on the Mississippi Company and the financial crisis of 1720. At the top, ships floundering in a rough sea. In the centre, top, the figure of Justice, above twelve lines of verse and a biblical quotation (Lamentations, IV.5 and 18) on the left of which is a river and on the right, a road. At the bottom, three wagons bring the Mississippi directors to the gallows from which others are already hanging watched by a crowd; a preacher stands on a tub beside the gallows.
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