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Title: An Elegy [on the death of Richard Carlile].
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 D27e
Description: Elegiac poem and prose obituary, including account of burial.
Subject: Carlile, Richard, 1790-1843; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Date: 1843

Title: Specimen of Equality & Fraternity
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 P14s
Description: Paine greets Priestley,who is backed by Bonneville, and offers him a copy of Rights of Man. The first two are each depicted with one human and one animal foot while Bonneville is portrayed as a demon.; Gimbel: 269 A colored pen and ink drawing in imitation of a print; inscribed "J.P. inv. et delin.", designed and drawn by J.P., identified as John Paget by Gimbel.
Creator: Paget, John
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Bonneville, Nicholas de, 1760-1828; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804

Title: The End of Pain: The last Speech, Dying Words, and Confession of T. P
Identifier(s): Paine 75 Ov2e, graphics:5228 APSdigobj3206
Description: A portrait of Paine in a noose hung on a lamp-bracket inscribed "Rights of This Man". A figure in the shape of a demon, identified below as Mr. Equality, or Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, also known as Philippe Égalité, peers from the side. A mock escutcheon emblazoned with pairs of stays and the motto: "Common Sense" hangs nearby. The image accompanies an ironical defense of Paine, printed below. ; George: 8294A Gimbel: 245 Two copies. After Ovenden, T, 1790 - 1820 (see George: 8294).
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Death and burial

Title: Radical Quacks Giving a New Constitution to John Bull
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 C82r
Description: John Bull, both legs amputated, sits between two reformers as doctors administering to his constitution.; George 13714, Gimbel 262
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Age of reason; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Constitution. Great Britain
Date: 1821-02-04

Title: "At a meeting held this day ..."
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 So1a
Description: Letter from Paine to the Society for Constitutional Information regarding Rights of Man and subsequent resolutions.
Creator: Society for Constitutional Information (London, England)
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Society for Constitutional Information (London, England)
Date: 1792

Title: Portrait of a modern infidel.
Identifier(s): : Am3p
Description: Paraphrase of excerpt from Cheetham's 1809 biography of Paine regarding his doctor's account of his death.
Creator: American Tract Society
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Manley, James R., 1781-1851; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Death and burial; American Tract Society
Date: circa 1831

Title: Mad Tom's first Practical Essay on the Rights of Man
Identifier(s): Paine 75 C84s,graphics:5217 APSdigobj3210
Description: Paine, Sheridan and Whitbread imagined as the arsonists responsible for a fire started in the House of Commons by a hidden pair of burning breeches. Paine, as a sans-culotte, sets fire to his own straw filled breeches. ; George: 8087 Gimbel: 236. Four copies, variations in color.
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816; Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Date: 1792-05-14

Title: [Paine centenary celebration]
Identifier(s): : Paine 74 P165a
Description: Reverend Slicer speaks from a flag-festooned outdoor podium, facing a standing audience.; Slicer, of All Souls' Unitarian Church, N. Y, gave an address entitled: "Thomas Paine as the Devotee of Liberty". Possibly photographed by Van der Weyde, William M. (William Manley), 1870-1928 as noted in: Wakeman, Thaddeus Burr. 1909. Memorial celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine at the Paine monument: Pine Avenue and North Street, New Rochelle, N.Y. Saturday, June 5th, 1909, 2 p.m. Prof. Thaddeus B. Wakeman, president, Thomas Paine Historical Association, presiding.
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Monuments ; Slicer, Thomas Roberts, 1847-1916; Thomas Paine National Historical Association
Date: circa 1909

Title: The News-boy's address to the readers of the Republican Spy.
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 N47
Description: Verse critique of Federalist abuse, primarily related to the September 1806 trial of Andrew Wright, the printer of the Republican Spy, convicted of criminal libels against Governor Caleb Strong.
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819; Wright, Andrew; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1806-01-01

Title: The Tree of Liberty - with the Devil tempting John Bull
Identifier(s): Paine 75 G41tre, graphics:5227 APSdigobj3202
Description: Fox, as a serpent coiled around the trunk of a liberty cap topped apple tree, attempts to lure John Bull with an apple labeled: "Reform". Among the apples of the "Opposition" tree is one called "Age of Reason" and the trunk is also inscribed "Rights of Man". ; Gimbel: 254. Plate V in the German journal London und Paris, I, 1798. Reduced reproduction after the Gillray print published by Hannah Humphrey on 1789-05-23 (see George: 9214)
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Age of reason; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Date: 1798

Title: The Arms Emblazoned of the New Enlightened Trading Fraternity of Obstetric, Pharmaceutic, Veterinarian, Barberian, Magnetic Chirurgeons,
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 Ar5
Description: A mock escutcheon for the College of Surgeons. The supporters are figures of Thomas Paine and the Duke of Bedford holding his decapitated head. Rights of Man and The Age of Reason are among the books beneath the shield.; George v. 7, No. 9193.
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802; Royal College of Surgeons; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. The Age of Reason; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of Man
Date: 1798-04-06

Title: Little Johnny Rouse-Hell or the Ministers Last Shift
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 L72
Description: Russell thrusts documents into a blazing hell-mouth, agape in the House of Commons. A few figures are seen inside it, including Cobbett, peering though a gridiron, and Paine as a skeleton wearing a liberty cap.; George: 16643, Gimbel: 276
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Cobbett, William, 1763-1835; Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
Date: 1831-04-31

Title: Paris - Statue de Thomas Paine
Identifier(s): : Paine 74 P165s.1
Description: Image of Paine statue by Borglum in Paris on postcard mailed to Richard Gimbel from Joseph Lewis.; Verso: "587 Paris - Statue de Thomas Paine, Borglum: sculpteur, Memorial Committtec to Th. Paine: donateur", postmark and manuscript note.
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Monuments ; Gimbel, Richard, 1898-1970; Lewis, Joseph, 1889-1968; Thomas Paine Memorial Committee
Date: circa 1934

Title: The Political Champion turned Resurrection Man!: Out of thy own Mouth will condemn thee
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 C86p
Description: Cobbett flies astride a demon, bearing the bones of Paine from America to Europe. A group bearing liberty caps and banners, including Wooler as "The Black Dwarf", rejoices on one side and a group of Quakers on the other while Napoleon watches on. ; George: 13283 Gimbel: 274
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac Robert, 1789-1856
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769-1821; Cobbett, William, 1763-1835; Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Death and burial; Wooler, Thomas Jonathan, 1786?-1853
Date: 1819-12

Title: French Liberty
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 N65f
Description: A negative representation of revolutionary France, with an allegorical figure of Liberty forcibly ejected from her temple while Paine, as a harlequin, floats above holding a pair of stays inscribed: "Rights of Man". He is identified in the inscription below: "over the Temple the Author of the Rights of Man is supported on bubbles that are blown up by two Devils; this represents his work to be Froth & Airy Vapour: tending to delude & mislead a Nation".; George: 8334
Creator: Nixon, John, circa 1750-1818
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)
Date: 1793

Title: A Peep into Bethlehem
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 R79pb
Description: Wolcot listens to a declaiming Burke, surrounded by various published works by Wolcot (as Peter Pindar) and Paine.They include Wolcot's Odes to Mr. Paine, Common Sense and Rights of Man. Nicholson stands behind them, clutching bunches of straw.; George: 8367 Negative and positive photostats.
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797; Nicholson, Margaret, ca. 1750-1828; Wolcot, John, 1738-1819
Date: circa 1793

Title: "Cobbett at Coventry."
Identifier(s): graphics:5204; APSimg2323; Negative Number: 1110.029
Description: Gimbel Collection: Paine 75 Ey6C
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Political cartoons; Gimbel Collection
Date: 1820 (?)

Title: To the printer of the Edinburgh Evening Courant
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 C73t
Description: Response to literature of reformist societies, such as the Society of the Friends of the People, regarding Scottish parliamentary representation.
Creator: Common Sense, pseud.
Subject: Society of the Friends of the People (Scotland); Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense

Title: "The Absent Man."
Identifier(s): graphics:5233; APSdigobj3197
Description: Gimbel Collection: Paine 75 Ab8; George: 8212
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Gimbel Collection; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Political cartoons
Date: 1792

Title: "The End of Pain."
Identifier(s): graphics:5228; APSdigobj3206
Description: Gimbel Collection: Paine 75 Ov2E
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Gimbel Collection; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Political cartoons; Caricatures
Date: n. d.