File:"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting" (BM J,4.119).jpg
Original file (1,600 × 1,453 pixels, file size: 463 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary[edit]
"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting" ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Title |
"Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting" |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Watson, Bishop of Llandaff (left), and Gibbon (right) sit on the opposite scales of a balance, with their respective works, Gibbon outweighing Watson. Watson, wearing a mitre and lawn sleeves, sits on a pile of six volumes inscribed 'Theological Trac[ts]', saying, "Boy - Put in the Chymical Essays". A ragged boy kneels below the scale holding up to the bishop a pamphlet inscribed 'An Apology for Christianity In a Le[tter]'. Beside him is a pile of five books, one inscribed 'Chymical Essays by ... '. Gibbon sits complacently on volumes '1' to '3' of 'Gibbons Roman history'. Volumes '4-6' are piled up beside him. June 1788 [So dated by Miss Banks]
Etching |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Representation of: Edward Gibbon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1788 date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
J,4.119 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) In 1776 Watson published his 'Apology for Christianity in a series of Letters to ... Gibbon ...', as an antidote to Gibbon's fifteenth chapter. He edited 'A Collection of Theological Tracts', 6 vols., 1785. For his 'Chemical Essays', 5 vols., 1781-7, see BMSat 7148. Volumes 4-6 of the 'Decline and Fall' were published on 27 April 1788, cf. BMSat 7148. They are not mentioned in the 'Critical Review' for 1788. Reproduced, 'Social England', ed. Traill, 1904, v. 613. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-119 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
Licensing[edit]
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag. Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 11:54, 12 May 2020 | 1,600 × 1,453 (463 KB) | Copyfraud (talk | contribs) | British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1788 #5,831/12,043 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Orientation | Normal |
---|---|
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 |
File change date and time | 16:54, 11 November 2005 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |