- Title:
- Improvement in Weights and Measures. - or - "Sir John Seeclear Discovering e/y Ballance of e/y Flag" (from: Caricature, vol. 1)
- Date:
- 1798
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 1/2 x 9 5/8in. (34.3 x 24.4cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper left: "Vive Le Egalité | Navy of England to be retaind viz: 5000 Seamen & half a Dozen Ships of War - 500000 Sailors to be sent to plant Potatoes | 10,000 heavy reasons for giving the Evemy a fair chance of getting out of their Ports | Advantages of cold oeconomy"; upper center: "Table of Weights & Measures laid down upon the true democratic principle of the Stilliards of Egalité"; upper right: "Democratic Verbosity | Pigs Meat: or new method of feeding the Swinish Multitude"; center right: "Improvements in the Art of Political Dunging | Pursuits of Agriculture | The The Apostate Laird - A Parliamentary Romance - together with Loss of the Agricultural Chair"; lettered below image, lower left: "Js. Gillray invt. & fect."; lower center: "'Improvement in Weights & Measures.' or Sir John Seeclear discovering ye Ballance of ye British Flag."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.925
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature | caricatures | satire
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Improvement in Weights and Measures. - or - "Sir John Seeclear Discovering e/y Ballance of e/y Flag" (from: Caricature, vol. 1), 1798
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