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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1791]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man
- Alternative Title:
- Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 41.9 x 28.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 66 of volume 2 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
- Subject (Topic):
- Symbols, Tailors, and Tailoring
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].
