print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8674
- Title
- Object: The new banking company's, scales of equity.
- Description
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A hand projects from the upper margin, holding the ornate beam of a pair of scales against the irradiated inscription Mene mene—Tekel, &c. [cf. BM Satires 10072, &c.]. One scale (left) is filled by a large melon from which a slice has been cut, and by a paper: One Million Sterling!! The scale is inscribed The times are Rank Hamlet. This slightly outweighs the other scale which is filled by a ducal coronet and papers: Lt R. N—; Duke E[ar]l Baron; Earl of—; Hery Grd Falconer; Chany; Nell Gwynn!; Hery Regr Chancery! The scale is inscribed A Pledge of Better Times. Below the title: I will venture "Coute qui Coute". November 1825
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 354 millimetres
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Width: 248 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
For Mrs. Coutts (Harriot Mellon) and the Duke of St. Albans see No. 14874, &c. He inherited from the first duke, son of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, the offices of Master Falconer of England and Registrar of Chancery (the fees appearing in the Black Book). 'L'R.N' may derive from a confusion between the Duke and a younger brother, a naval officer. Copied on a tiny scale on the screen described in No. 15159.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8674
