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1. "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.12.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sinclair, tall and thin, stands full-face, holding up in his right hand a balance (steelyard, or stilliard) inscribed 'Vive le EgaliteĢ'. A large British flag at the right end of the beam much outweighs a bunch of objects at the other; three documents: [1] 'Navy of England to be retaind viz: 50000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes.' [2] '10 000 heavy reasons for giving the Enemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports.' [3] 'Advantages of cold oeconomy'. Below these are bunches of turnips, carrots, a cabbage, the whole terminating in a pendent bonnet-rouge. Sinclair is fashionably dressed, wearing a hat, half-boots, ill-fitting coat, and overcoat almost to the ankles. On a heavily draped writing-table (right) are three large volumes: 'Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging and Pursuits of Agriculture.' A paper: 'The Apostate Laird - a Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Arm' Chair. On the wall (right) is a picture of three pigs feeding at a trough of 'Democratic Verbosity'; this is 'Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude' [see BMSat 8500, &c.]. Beside it is a placard: 'Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic Principle of the Stilliards of EgaliteĢ'. A patterned carpet completes the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- "Improvement in weights and measures" and Sir John Seeclear discovering the ballance of the British flag
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Scales -- Flags: British flag -- Food: vegetables -- Bonnet rouge -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Writing materials: inkstand., Watermark: 1794 J Whatman., and Subject identified in contemporary hand below title.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Improvement in weights & measures", or, Sir John Seeclear discovering [the] ballance of [the] British flag [graphic]
