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Tom Paine's Nightly Pest   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
Description
English: Paine lies asleep on straw on a ramshackle wooden bedstead, covered by his coat. He wears a cap inscribed 'Libertas'. He lies diagonally from left to right, facing the spectator. On the head of his bed are drawn the profile heads, with wings, of his Guardian Angels: Priestley (left) and Fox (right). His head rests on a bundle of straw round which is a striped and torn (?) flag inscribed 'Vive l'America'. His arm lies across an open book: 'The Rights of Farthing Candles proving their Equality with the Sun & Moon. And the necessity of a Reformation in the Planetary System.' From his coat-pocket protrudes a pamphlet: 'Common Sense or Reason destructive to Free Government.' On a table by his side (right) are a rat with its head caught in a trap, writing materials, and a paper: 'The Golden Age The Art of Equalizing the Property of Princes & Pikemen.'


His dream appears surrounded with clouds on the right of the design. Three judges are represented by their empty wigs: before each hangs a long scroll headed [1] 'Pleas for Thos Paine. Ignorance Poverty Envy.' [2] 'Charges against Thos Paine Libels Scurrilities Lies Perjuries, Rebellions, Treasons.' [3] 'Punishments for Thos Paine Corporal Pain Contempt, Detestation.' Behind is the stone wall of a dungeon with a closely barred window, on each side of which hang heavy shackles. A gibbet and a pillory also emerge from the clouds. 26 November 1792


Etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 244 millimetres
Width: 342 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.624
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The extreme poverty of the room is shown by the wall (where the plaster has broken away to show bricks), by a tattered curtain (dotted with fleurs-de-lis), and a raftered and sloping roof. Paine is not caricatured, and his expression though severe is composed and dignified.

See BMSat 8137, a more elaborate version of this design.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-624
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