Print, satirical print, book-illustration, William Wynne Ryland, circa 1770

Copy of scene outside an inn with the sign of 'the weighing house', with nine men being assessed along a scale of gravity to levity; at right a man by the inn door operates a pulley to raise a magnet from the crossbeam of the inn sign; the men are balanced in a semi-circle from 'a', 'absolute gravity', standing on his head, to 'i', 'absolute levity or stark fool', in the middle of the air just beneath the magnet; at the centre, horizontally balanced and with nonchalant expression, is e, 'good sence'; illustration to clubbe's 'miscellaneous tracts' (1770)? etching and engraving. Date: circa 1770. Dimensions: Height: 127 mm (trimmed); Width: 159 mm (cropped). Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Clubbe. Collection: British Museum. Print, satirical print, book-illustration (BM Cc,1.177)