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Richard Newton
1777-1798
Tom Pains effegy [sic], or, The rights of a sedtious [sic] poltroon
etching
image: 227 x 339 mm; sheet: 246 x 350 mm
Peel 3418
Published:
[London] : Pub Jany 16th 1793 by J Aitkin No. 18 Castle St Leicester Fields, [1793]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Bibliography:
Robinson, Nicholas K. Edmund Burke : a life in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Press,1996, page 166 (reproduced).
Notes:
Title from item.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
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."
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