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The double discovery
Description
English: A flying demon holds the level beam of a pair of scales, on which stand Wilkes (l.) and Parson Horne (r.). Each stands in the attitude of a fencer, thrusting at the other with an outstretched goose-quill; neither has the advantage. Wilkes wears a bag-wig, Horne is in parson's gown and bands. The demon says: "nicely pois'd indeed". The print illustrates "The Balance of Honour and Patriotism; or a Dialogue between Mr. H------and Mr. ------, in which the Demon of Discord very properly interferes". The dialogue ends with Horne's expressing a wish "that you, good Mr. Devil, had been conducting me to H------ll, before Malagrida [Shelburne] had persuaded me to engage in this d------n'd controversy". 1 June 1771
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Depicted people Representation of: John Horne Tooke
Date 1771
date QS:P571,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 156 millimetres
Width: 106 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.9938
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

>From the 'Town and Country Magazine', iii. 262, with text on the verso. One of a number of satires on the quarrel between Wilkes and Horne which began in November 1770 and was carried on by letters in the Press between 14 Jan. and 10 July 1771. See Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 176 ff. These satires accuse Horne of being inspired by the Devil, Ministers, &c. See BMSat 4852, 4863, 4866, 4868, 4886, 4948, 4967, 5104, 5129. An interesting indication of the distrust inspired by Shelburne then in the Opposition, and concerned at its weakness, of which this quarrel was one manifestation. Fitzmaurice, 'Shelburne', 1912, i. 423, 437. Cf. BMSat 4152, 4375.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9938
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