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"Improvement in Weights and Measures"; or, Sir John Seeclear Discovering Ye Ballance of Ye British Flag

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"Improvement in Weights and Measures"; or, Sir John Seeclear Discovering Ye Ballance of Ye British Flag

James Gillray|Hannah Humphrey

Date
December 1, 1798
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
sheet (clipped impession): 14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in. (36.5 x 25.6 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
17.3.888-70
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Original Met record Wikidata Artist authority

Artist information

British, London 1756–1815 London|London

Subjects and terms

  • Satire
  • Men
  • Flags
  • Scales
  • Politics

The Met object ID 391821. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.