The Cabinetical Balance

The Cabinetical Balance

In this print, Henry Addington and Edward Law are posed over the cross-beam of the scale. The lower scale (right) contains the ‘Broad-Bottomites’ i.e. the Grenvillites, or New Opposition. In the left scale are the ‘No-Bottomites,’ or the Foxites or Old Opposition. Although they do not wear the, the figures in the left scale have bonnet-rouges with them. The scales are suspended above the curve of the globe on which Great Britain and the Continent are indicated.

James Gillray

The British Museum

Hannah Humphrey

Published 16 February 1806 in London

The British Museum

© Trustees of the British Museum

Hand-colored etching

Image: 35.5 x 24.8 cm

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