Possibly executed by Samuel Collings, who is believed to have employed the pseudonym Annibal Scratch for some of his prints.
At head of image: Political Portraiture No. 6.
Etched plate issued as an illustration in the 'Attic Miscellany', ii. 417.
Fleet Street bookseller Jeremiah Samuel Jordan was arrested on charges of sedition in 1792 for the publication and sale of Paine's Rights of man.
Caption title followed by two lines of verse at right, beginning, "Neither born nor begotten ..."
Library's copy closely trimmed, with the lower right hand corner cut away with loss to text following title.
Print shows Thomas Paine emerging from the anus of a defecating devil, at right, shown in flight with "Yankee Doodle" directly above at top right; Paine hangs upside-down, holding a copy of his Rights of man, with his head directed at the doorway of a bookshop, standing at left, lettered with the name of "Jordan" (i.e., Jeremiah Samuel Jordan) over the doorway.