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