File:Print, satirical print, book-illustration (BM Cc,1.177).jpg

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print, satirical print, book-illustration   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: William Hogarth

After: Joshua Kirby (?)
Print made by: William Wynne Ryland
Title
print, satirical print, book-illustration
Description
English: Copy of scene outside an inn with the sign of 'The Weighing House', with nine men being assessed along a scale of gravity to levity; at right a man by the inn door operates a pulley to raise a magnet from the crossbeam of the inn sign; the men are balanced in a semi-circle from 'A', 'absolute Gravity', standing on his head, to 'I', 'absolute Levity or Stark Fool', in the middle of the air just beneath the magnet; at the centre, horizontally balanced and with nonchalant expression, is E, 'good Sence'; illustration to Clubbe's 'Miscellaneous Tracts' (1770)?
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Illustration to: John Clubbe (?)
Date circa 1770
date QS:P571,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 127 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 159 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Cc,1.177
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Cc-1-177
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