Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
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View Metadata| TITLE INFORMATION | |||
| Title | Tom Paine's Nightly Pest | ||
| IDENTIFIERS | |||
| Legacy Identifier | Paine 75 G41t | ||
| ASSOCIATED NAMES | |||
| Artist | Gillray, James, 1756-1815 | ||
| CONTENT DESCRIPTION | |||
| Abstract | Paine sleeps on a bed of straw, surrounded by parodies of his works, watched over by Fox and Priestley as guardian angels, and dreams of his trial. A demon holding a fiddle and sheet music inscribed "Ca ira" flees through the window. | ||
| Note | George: 8137, Gimbel: 240. Five copies, variations in color. | ||
| Language | English (eng) | ||
| Language | French (fre) | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | ||
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |||
| Type | StillImage | ||
| Genre | Political Cartoons | ||
| Format | intaglio, hand-colored | ||
| Extent | H 29 cm, W 36.4 cm | ||
| Digital Origin | reformatted digital | ||
| Reformatting Quality | preservation | ||
| ORIGIN INFORMATION | |||
| Date Issued | 1797-12-10 | ||
| Date Modified | 2014-10-30 | ||
| Publisher | Hannah Humphrey | ||
| Place | 18 Old Bond Street | ||
| Place | England | ||
| PARENT COLLECTION | |||
| Title | Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers | ||
| Call Number | Mss.B.P165 | ||
| URL | http://amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P165-ead.xml | ||
| ACCESS INFORMATION | |||
| Use | The APS has an Open Access Policy for all unrestricted material in the digital library. Open Access Materials can be used freely for non-commercial, scholarly, educational, or fair use as defined under United States copyright law. Read the full policy and learn more about our Rights and Reproduction at: http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/rights | ||
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