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• 1 media/Gold at 160.jpeg 2017-07-06T09:57:17-07:00 Picturing Providence, Illustrating Illness 31 plain 2017-07-10T14:24:23-07:00

  The visual language of fate-from-above drew on older traditions in Western art. Depictions of the “money devil” showering covetous Europeans with undeserved riches dated back to the seventeenth century and cast prosperity (at least the get-rich-quick kind) as a curse from beyond. Americans would invoke this motif time and again in the nineteenth century.

  
   "Gold at 160. Gold at 130," printed in Harper’s Weekly in 1869, envisioned diabolical influences in the volatile gold market. Lorum Ipsum, sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?
  
  “Economy – The Lesson of the Great Panic” (1873) Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?
  
  An untitled cartoon in J. Laurence Laughlin’s Facts About Money (1896) presented failure as a heavenly spirit descending on the acquisitive masses. "Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

   

  The lesson these images conveyed was more moral than technical. These artists did not profess to know how to manage economic affairs, either in one’s personal life or in the halls of political power. Instead, echoing powerful moral traditions, they cautioned against greed and hubris, casting ruin as divine retribution and success as a goal best pursued by modesty, diligence, and thrift – advice made clearest by engraver John Donaghy’s instruction to “Emulate Poor Richard.”

  
  
  
  
  
   

• 1 media/AAS - The Explosion-1.jpg 2017-07-10T12:01:24-07:00 Picturing Providence, Illustrating Illness 14 Page 2, Version 3 gallery 2017-07-10T14:03:45-07:00

  The visual language of fate-from-above drew on older traditions in Western art. Depictions of the “money devil” showering covetous Europeans with undeserved riches dated back to the seventeenth century and cast prosperity (at least the get-rich-quick kind) as a curse from beyond. Americans would invoke this motif time and again in the nineteenth century. “Gold at 160. Gold at 130,” printed in Harper’s Weekly in 1869, envisioned diabolical influences in the volatile gold market, while “Economy – The Lesson of the Great Panic” (1873) and an untitled cartoon in J. Laurence Laughlin’s Facts About Money (1896) presented failure as a heavenly spirit descending on the acquisitive masses.The lesson these images conveyed was more moral than technical. These artists did not profess to know how to manage economic affairs, either in one’s personal life or in the halls of political power. Instead, echoing powerful moral traditions, they cautioned against greed and hubris, casting ruin as divine retribution and success as a goal best pursued by modesty, diligence, and thrift – advice made clearest by engraver John Donaghy’s instruction to “Emulate Poor Richard.”

• 1 2017-07-20T10:58:47-07:00 An Age of Panics 1 plain 2017-07-20T10:58:47-07:00