From Livestock To The Stock Exchange

From Livestock to the Stock Exchange. © Sally Cochrane All Rights Reserved

Artist's description: This is a brief visual history of trade, reading left to right. The offset "money" was cattle, represented past times the cheese. Ancient Mesopotamians kept runway of their cattle exchanges on cuneiform tablets similar receipts (we bring around at the Oriental flora of Chicago!). The source of the give-and-take "pecuniary" comes from the source "pecu" pregnant "cattle." Cowrie shells were around other early on cast of currency for trade, in addition to beaver fur, which was really valuable, was used inwards barter when Europeans discovered the New World. The coins in addition to stock pump record correspond the modern halt of the history. July 2013. 8"x 16" stone oil on canvas.

Original here amongst many other sizes.

Sally says the beaver fur was inspired past times a Russ Roberts EconTalk podcast, interviewing Timothy Brook on his mass Vermeer's Hat. "Part of the mass talked most how valuable beaver fur was for making hats that ended upwards inwards the Netherlands during Vermeer's lifetime." I don't know how many other artists heed to EconTalk piece painting...