"An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells., 1 print : soft-ground etching on wove paper ; plate mark 21.4 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 29.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 55 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
"An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells., and Mounted on page 75 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
"An ass, laden with panniers filled with books, lifts up its head to bray 'Rights of Man' (thrice repeated), while its hind-legs are kicking in the direction of the British Lion (right). From its head hang an ink-bottle and pen. The books are inscribed 'Paines Pampl[et]', 'Paine' (twice), 'Libels on the Constitution', 'Treason', 'Atheistic Trac[ts]', 'Treasonable Essays', 'Seditious Pamphlets'. The head only of the lion, crowned, appears on the right, his mouth is open as if roaring, and he holds open a large book inscribed: (left) 'Reflections on the Revolution in France &c by the Right Honble E Burke', and (right) (a quotation from p. 3,1st ed.): 'the soci[ety] calling itself the Society for Constitutional Information was intended for the Circulation at the Expence of the Members of many Books which few others would be at the Expence of buying and which might lie on thands [sic] of the Booksellers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Published by order of the Society for Constitutional Information by D. Adams Secretary
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Two lines of quoted text below title: "From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy and schism &c., Good Lord deliver us.", and Temporary local subject terms: Societies: allusion to the Society for Constitutional Information -- Literature -- Crowned British Lion -- Panniers -- Daniel Adams as an ass -- Inkwells.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1791 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 August 1791]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 90. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 90 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Augst. 1, 1791, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street
