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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Wha wants me
Description
English: Paine stands full face, looking to the left and smiling. He holds out his right arm, holding a pen and a long scroll; in his left hand is a dagger. On his back is a large bundle of weapons, shackles, and instruments of torture. He smiles slyly, his face is blotched with drink. He is neatly and plainly dressed; from his button-hole hangs an exciseman's ink-bottle, inscribed 'Gall'. His head is irradiated, with words inscribed between the rays: 'Cruelty', 'Equality Madness', 'Anarchy Murder', 'Treason', 'Rebellion', 'Perjury', 'Atheism', 'Misery', 'Famine', 'National & Private Ruin', 'Ingratitude Idleness', 'Treachery', 'Injustice'. His scroll is inscribed: 'Rights of Man [see BMSat 7867, &c] - Common Nonsense - Equality of Property &c. &c.' He tramples on scrolls inscribed: 'Loyalty', 'Magna Charta', 'National Prosperity', 'Religion', 'Protection Property', 'Obedience to the Laws', 'Morality', 'happiness', 'Industry', 'Personal Security', 'Inheritance', 'Justice'. Beneath the title is etched: 'I am Ready & Willing to offer my Services to any Nation or People under heaven who are Desirous of Liberty & Equality Vide Paines Letter to the Convention.' 26 December 1792.
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Thomas Paine
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 378.000 millimetres
Width: 293 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.7
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A letter of Paine to the Convention, dated 'Paris, Sept. 25. Ist Year of the Republic', was published in the English newspapers, in which he told his 'fellow-citizens', 'I come not to enjoy repose. Convinced that the cause of France is the cause of all mankind ... I gladly share with you the dangers and honours necessary to success. ... It has been my fate to have borne a share in the commencement and complete establishment of one revolution... [by 'Common Sense', &c]... the despots of the earth... know not what it is to fight against a nation. . . . Every nation is becoming her colleague, and every Court is become her enemy'. 'London Chronicle', 13 Oct. 1792. On 17 and 18 Dec. Paine was burnt in effigy by the troops in Dorchester, Weymouth, Poole, Trowbridge, &c, and on 19 Dec. effigies of Paine and Priestley were burnt at Colchester. 'The World', 21 Dec. 1792. See also Conway, 'Life of Paine', ii. 370 f. For Paine's trial see BMSat 8137. The title derives from an Edinburgh character, and was first applied to Dundas, see BMSat 8103.
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