Debt posters & prints

Credit is dead, the bad debtors have killed it French School

A New Way to Pay the National-Debt Anonymous

Satire on the national debt, 1782 (1785) Francis Jukes

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors Philips Galle

Sir Cecils budget for paying the national debt Thomas Rowlandson

Edmund Kean as Sir Giles Overreach in 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts', c.1816 George Clint

Ah! Mr Bilk'em how d'ye do? ... Anonymous

The Nautical Debt of 1782 Elizabeth Henriette Phelps

Interior of a Debtors' Prison, The Fleet Illustration Anonymous

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

Edmund Kean in Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts George Clint

The Kentish lottery - or a new way to pay old debts Anonymous

John Bull and the sinking fund James Gillray

A Rake's Progress; plate VII of VIII William Hogarth

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

A Cool Customer Anonymous

A tenant who owes three terms, plate 20 from the series 'Tenants and owners', Honore Daumier

A Rake's Progress; plate IV of VIII William Hogarth

The Road to Ruin William Powell Frith (after)

The faith of treaties exemplified or John Bull's last effort to oblige his false friends Anonymous

A Monument dedicated to Posterity, 1720 Bernard Picart

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

Scene VII: The Rake in Prison, 1735 William Hogarth

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

The Faith of Treaties Exemplified or John Bull's Last Effort to Oblige His False Friends Anonymous

Scene VII: The Rake in Prison, 1735 William (after) Hogarth

A Real Jubilee Memorial Anonymous

The South Sea Bubble, print made by Thomas Boys, 1825 English School

Letter from Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector, to General George Monck Richard Cromwell

The Nuptial Bower Anonymous

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

Fleet Prison, London Anonymous

View of Whitecross Street Prison for debtors, London Frederick Napoleon Shepherd

The Collector of Tithes Pieter Breughel the Younger

The Whitecross Street Prison for debtors, London Anonymous

The Distressed Poet, 1740 William Hogarth