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The Balance Master
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English: Satire on the Duke of Grafton and his domineering manner as prime minister. Grafton, a whip in one hand, standing on a plank balanced like a see-saw across the back of Britannia who kneels beneath, a heavy weight lettered “National Debt” hanging around her neck, on a large rock; her shield and spear lie beside her. At the left of the see-saw sit four of Grafton’s ministers: Lord Camden in Lord Chancellor’s robes in front, behind him Viscount Weymouth, then the Marquis of Granby and finally Sir Fletcher Norton. Grafton points to five other politicians sitting at the other end which he pushes down slightly with his foot: Duke of Bedford in front, followed by others including (according to Stephens) Richard Rigby and Lord Gower.


In the foreground the devil and Folly stand on either side of Viscount Barrington. The devil holds up a “Letter of Thanks” and says “Write Another Letter my Lord” referring to Barrington’s letter supporting the intervention of the army at the riots in St George’s Fields on 10th May (see BM Satires 4196). The flames of hell rise up on either side.
The print was used as the frontispiece to the November number of The Political Register, 1768.


Etching and engraving
Depicted people Representation of: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Date 1768
date QS:P571,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 104 millimetres (image)
Width: 167 millimetres (image)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1855,0609.1937
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0609-1937
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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