Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found Wanting by John Kirby Baldrey

Hand-colored satire of a bishop and a man on opposing balance pans, with a kneeling figure and a Daniel 5:27 quotation below.

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A hand-colored satirical print shows a bishop in a yellow mitre and black robes seated on one pan of a balance, while a man in a brown coat sits on the opposing pan atop books labeled Gibbon's Roman History. A kneeling figure in a blue coat gestures toward the scene, and a banner reads 'Boy - Put in the Chymical Essays.' The inscription beneath quotes Daniel 5:27. The print is titled Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found Wanting, by John Kirby Baldrey, dated 1788.

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