The balance of merit [graphic].

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Description

Title
The balance of merit [graphic].
Published / Created
[1792]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title etched below image.
Dated from Thurlow's impending dismissal and the introduction of Fox's Libel Bill.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Horne Tooke, 1736-1812 -- Allusion to Honoré-Gabriel-Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791 -- Allusion to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette -- Travestied slogans: God save the King -- Horace Walpole refers to subject in print, YW 34. 141-142, n. 5 -- Nicknames: "Sherry" for Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- "Renard" for Charles James Fox -- Allusion to National Assembly -- Literature: Allusion to Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke -- Allusion to The rights of man by Thomas Paine -- Bible quotation: "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin," Daniel v. 25 -- Hand of Providence -- Royal money as weight -- Great Seal -- Revolutionary societies -- Thurlow's impending dismissal -- Bills: Libel Bill -- Parliamentary reform -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Travesties: French Revolutionary playbill -- Expressions of speech: George III's "What, what, what" -- French Revolutionary cockades -- Winged head of cherub -- Balance -- Whigs -- Tories -- Double entendres -- Allusion to Regency crisis -- Clergy: Allusion to leveling -- Jacobins -- Symbols: Scale of merit -- Pitt's usurpation of prerogative.
Watermark: L.V.G.
Numbered in pencil in upper right corner of sheet: 449.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent
1 print : sheet 53.7 x 42 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Drawer 792.05.00.05

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic)
Scales
Subjects
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Scales
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9811819
Object ID (OID)
10732770

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