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1. "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].

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [23 May 1791]
Call Number:: 791.05.23.01 Impression 1
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., and Mounted to 43 x 29 cm.
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:: Lewis Walpole 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].

2. A democrat [graphic]

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 September 1791]
Call Number:: 791.09.02.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A French patriot, wearing a cocked hat with large tricolor cockage, rests his hand on a bludgeon; from his pocket issues the "Rights of Man. Paine". In the background a noose dangles from a lamppost on which is fixed a bleeding head"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. Septr. 2, 1791, by S.W. Fores, N.3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):: Decapitations, History, Gallows, Nooses, and Street lights
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A democrat [graphic]

3. A gentleman of moderate income making himself decent to dine out. [graphic]

Published / Created:: [28 November 1796]
Call Number:: 796.11.28.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In his meager attic lodgings, a man dresses as his land lady looks on. On the wall is a poster with a portrait of Thomas Paine and a partially torn sign with the words "Buggs distroy'd", the art amplifying the subject
Description:: Title engraved below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '174' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Published 28th Novr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):: Attics, Landlord & tenant relations, Mirrors, Poverty, and Shaving equipment
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A gentleman of moderate income making himself decent to dine out. [graphic]

4. Contrasted opinions of Paine's pamphlet [graphic].

Creator:: Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, printmaker
Published / Created:: [26 May 1791]
Call Number:: 791.05.26.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Eight figures in two rows are depicted reading Thomas Paine's pamphlet The Rights of Man, each gesturing dramatically and each with a lengthy quote above his head either praising or denouncing the ideas expressed. On the top row are Edmund Burke (reading the passages referring to himself), Charles Fox, George III, and Charles Jenkinson. In the second row, Queen Charlotte, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, William Pitt, and Richard Sheridan seem to address each other in a similarly lively debate of contrasting responses to Paine's arguments
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to F.G. Byron. See An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age .../ Iain McCalman. Oxford : Published by Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 20., Below image on right: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitte. on shilg, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., For further information, consult library staff., and Pencil annotations identify each of the caricatures, but identifies Mary Wollstonecraft as Hannah More. Questionable printmaker attribution in local card catalog: R. Newton f.?
Publisher:: Pubd. May 26, 1791 by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):: France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, Jenkinson, Chalres, 1727-1808., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):: History, Foreign public opinion, British, and Politics and government
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Contrasted opinions of Paine's pamphlet [graphic].

5. French liberty [graphic].

Creator:: Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately July 1793?]
Call Number:: 793.07.00.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An allegorical representation of France with Liberty as a young woman bound and being dragged from a temple, Libertas, by French soldiers to face a angry mob, two decapitated heads at the base of the stairs. One soldier breaks a staff with a liberty cap at the top. A woman kneels a fire which consumes a spinning wheel and is fed books carried by laborers. A crowd of artists, musicians, carpenters, smiths, weavers and other tradesmen are roughly pushed away from the temple by a soldier. In the background a church which has been turned into a theatre attracts a large crowd to a production of "The massacre at Paris."
Description:: Attributed to John Nixon. See British Museum catalogue, no. 8334., Trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., One line of text below title: This print is most respectfully dedicated to every true hearted Briton who's a friend to his king and country., Four lines from Churchill's poem, Independence, printed in two columns on each side of title: O thou poor country, weak and overpow'rd, By thine own sons, eat to the bone, devour'd ..., Nine lines of explanatory text below image: Liberty is torn from her temple by a hired band of ruffians ... ., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom with loss of contemporary ms. annotation.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: France and France.
Subject (Name):: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):: History, Artists, Book burning, Decapitations, Demons, Destruction & pillage, Fools & jesters, Liberty, People associated with manual labor, Trade, Revolutions, and Violence
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > French liberty [graphic].

6. Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 12th May 1791.
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37.2 x 26.6 cm., and Mounted on leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):: History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

7. Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 12th May 1791.
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare., and Mounted on page 74.
Publisher:: Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):: History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

8. Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 12th May 1791.
Call Number:: 791.05.12.02+ Impression 1
Collection Title:: Leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom edges., and Two lines of verse etched below title: Nought shall make us rue, if England to itself do rest but true. Shakespeare.
Publisher:: Publd. by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):: France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, and Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Subject (Topic):: History, Foreign public opinion, British, Politics and government, Eyeglasses, Demons, Escutcheons (Heraldry), Trees, Axes, Crowns, Bibles, and Skeletons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Burke's pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians [graphic]

9. Oh dear, what can the matter be [graphic].

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [21 September 1793]
Call Number:: 793.09.21.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Duke of Richmond stands between two posts, supporting himself by a hand on each. He looks down and to the right, with a dismayed expression, vomiting a cascade of munitions of war: weapons, cannon, drums, &c, a fortress, a baggage-wagon, a windmill. One post (right) is inscribed '4 Per Chaldron 20,000 pr Anm', the other, 'Heriditary Income D'Aubigne'. A scroll floats towards him from the upper left corner of the design inscribed: 'Thou hast done those things thou ought not to have done And hast left undone those things thou oughfi [sic] to have done.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted.
Publisher:: Pubd. Sepr. 21, 1793, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806 and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Subject (Topic):: Politics and government, Arms & armament, and Military
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Oh dear, what can the matter be [graphic].