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Tom Pains effegy [sic], or, The rights of a sedtious [sic] poltroon

Richard Newton
1777-1798

Tom Pains effegy [sic], or, The rights of a sedtious [sic] poltroon

Published

[London] : Pub Jany 16th 1793 by J Aitkin No. 18 Castle St Leicester Fields, [1793]

etching
image: 227 x 339 mm; sheet: 246 x 350 mm
Peel 3418
Notes
Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Thomas Paine burned in a bonfire of weaponry and documents labeled "Rights of man", "Equality of property", "Murder", "Treason", "Treachery", etc., as Burke (at left), Pitt, Dundas, and others (at right) dance around the fire; Burke exclaims, "By Jasus we will outlaw him & the Devil make him Dance to the tune of Ça-Ira" as Pitt replies, "Yes Yes he stirred us up now we will stir him up & let the Devel make a san Colotte of him."

Associated names
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Bibliography

Robinson, Nicholas K. Edmund Burke : a life in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Press,1996, page 166 (reproduced).

Classification
Department
Century prints