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Title: Joseph Priestley, half length, formal.
Identifier(s): graphics:4705; APSimg2650; Graphics Number: F8-6-10
Description: Corner no. 110. Printed on front; engraved by W. Holl., Priestley, From a picture by Gilbert Stewart in the possession of T. B. Barclay Esq. Of Liverpool. Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. London published by Charles Knight
Creator: Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
Source: George Washington Corner III Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.11);
Subject: Portraits ; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: n.d.

Title: Joseph Priestley.
Identifier(s): graphics:4661; APSimg273; Negative Number: neg197
Description: Curatorial no. 58.P.52
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
Source: Fine Arts Collection;
Subject: Portraits ; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: ca.1801

Title: Adams, John to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1809 February 20; No. 14 John Adams to Dr. Benjamin Rush
Identifier(s): text:346310
Description: Points out that the Stoics and other philosophers preceded Dr. [Joseph] Priestley in the concept of the perfectability of the human mind; comments that no religious or political sect "ever carried their Jesuitical artifices to greater extravag_ than the late Faction of Atheistical Philosophers in France"; remarks that "Experimental is the only knowledge"; comments on the embargo.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Philosophy; Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1809-02-20; 2022

Title: Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 G41t; graphics:7591
Description: 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.; George: 8137, Gimbel: 240. Five copies, variations in color.
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1797-12-10

Title: Revolution Anniversary, or Patriotic Incantations
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 D43r
Description: Four figures dance around a cauldron before the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. Joseph Priestly is holding Rights of Man and invoking the spirit of Thomas Paine.; George 7890, Gimbel 232, two color variations
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1791-07-12

Title: Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 G41to; graphics:7694
Description: 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.; George: 8137
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1797-12-10

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: Vaughan, Benjamin to John Vaughan, 1789 May 6
Identifier(s): text:347049
Description: London, A.L. 4p. (see his Letters to John Vaughan, no.4) Insects infecting American corn; resulting trade restrictions; Hessian fly. Order for American journals. Mentions Sir Joseph Banks, Joseph Priestley, B. Franklin, and others.
Subject: Vaughan, John, 1756-1841; Hessian fly; Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1789-05-06

Title: A catalogue of books written by Dr. Joseph Priestley
Identifier(s): text:297; APSimg6529; Goodman Number: 128; 973 C683 No. 21
Description: In addition to listing 108 works authored by Priestley, this broadside also advertises that the autobiographical Memoirs of Doctor Joseph Priestley to the year 1795 (with a continuation to the time of his death by his son) is in the press, as well as Observations on his life by Thomas Cooper and William Christie. The two works were published by Binns as a single volume in 1806.; Oversized. One of the three copies of this broadside is annotated with the publication dates of Priestley's works.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Chemistry; Liberty; Religion
Date: ca. 1806

Title: New Morality: - or - The promis'd installment of the High-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the Homage of Leviathan and his Suite
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 G41new1
Description: A procession of English reformers and radicals as Jacobins pay tribute to Larevellière-Lépeaux, Priestley and Bedford, as Leviathan, among them. Paine is depicted as a weeping crocodile wearing stays and holding his Defense of the 18 Fructidor.; George: 9240 Gimbel: 271. Plate created to accompany the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine and the poem New Morality.by Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802; Larevellière-Lépeaux, O. (Ossian), 1797-1876; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1798-08-01

Title: The Repeal of the Test Act: - a Vision
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 Sa9r
Description: A group is gathered inside a church where the trio of Priestley, Price and Lindsey are preaching. Paine, as an exciseman is seated centrally and smiling towards Stanhope.; George: 7628
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808; Nicholson, Margaret, ca. 1750-1828; Price, Richard, 1723-1791; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Date: 1790-02-16

Title: John Bull's Sacrifice to Janus, a Design for a Peace-Offering to the Convention
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 Sa9j; graphics:7621
Description: Stanhope, as a skeleton, operates a guillotine in which John Bull, as a bull, has been confined. Landsdowne, as double-faced Janus and Priestley look on and Grafton prepared to light laws and other documents piled on an altar.; George: 8443
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823
Subject: Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811; Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Date: 1794-03-17

Title: Mr. Burke's Pair of Spectacles for short sighted Politicians
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 Sa9m
Description: Fox, assisted by Sheridan and a demon-riding Priestley, prepares to strike a symbol-laden tree with an ax inscribed "Rights of Man". An open copy of Rights of Man sits among other books nearby. The scene is seen through a pair of spectacles on which portraits of Fox and Sheridan are engraved. ; George: 7858 Gimbel: 229 Folder includes the August 29, 1791 issue of the Gazette of the United States, vol. III, no. 34
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816; Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Date: 1791-05-12

Title: The Friends of the People
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 C84fr
Description: Paine and Priestley face each other at a table on which a smiling demon sits. Priestley holds a lantern and a container labeled "Phosphorus" and Paine grasps two daggers. They are surrounded by piles of weapons and books. ; George: 8131 Gimbel: 239
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1792-11-15

Title: The Last dying speech and confession, birth, parentage, and education, life, character, and behavior, of that notorious traitor Tom Paine, who was executed at Tottenham High Cross, on Monday the 17th of December, 1792 ...
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 L33
Description: False announcement of the execution of Paine and his supposed renunciation of his beliefs.
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Death and burial; France--Revolution, 1792-1795; Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793; Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Frost, John, 1750-1842
Date: circa 1792

Title: Loyalty - against - Levelling; Loyalty - against - Leveling
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 Sa9L
Description: Paine sees the sign of the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Levellers and Republicans while attempting to cut off the sign of a crown with the assistance of Frenchmen. In his pocket are works by Priestley and his own Rights of Man. ; George: 8138 Gimbel: 241 Two copies
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)
Date: 1792-12-15