Books in the balance
5th May 2016
This large coloured lithograph, published in 1827, satirises Sir Walter Scott and how the Irish poet Thomas Moore pipped him to the post. BM Satires explains: ‘A pair of scales hands unevenly. In the upper scale sits Scott … supporting on his knees the nine volumes of his “Napoleon”. He looks down, absorbed and melancholy … In […]
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