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James Gillray
1756-1815
"The Rights of Man: or Tommy Paine, the little American taylor taking the measure of the Crown, for a new pair of revolution-breeches. / Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine Clubs of France & England!!! by Common Sense ...
hand colored etching
image: 350 x 240 mm; plate: 353 x 250 mm; sheet: 370 x 264 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2733
Published:
[London] : Pub. by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, May 24th 1791.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Day of publication has been altered in ink to "23" so that date reads "Pubd May 23th 1791 ..."
Summary:
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
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