Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Wha wants me?
Call Number
Lapidus 4.48f
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ms35t938w
Publisher
[London?] : S. Fores, 1792.
Language
English
Date Created
1792
Extent
1 sheet ; 38 x 35 cm
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift, Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2010.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Engraving. Colored.
"Published as the Act directs July 23, 1791, for J. Ridgway, York Street, St. James's Square."
This British cartoon depicts Paine as a radical revolutionary for hire. "I am Ready & Willing to offer my Services to any Nation or People under heaven who are Desirous of Liberty & Equality," he says, flourishing a scroll proclaiming "Rights of Man"/"Common Nonsense"/ "Equality of Property." The bottle of ink is labeled "gall." Paine stands on the discarded scraps of the established British order: Protection [of] Property, Religion, National Prosperity, Magna Charta, Loyalty, Obedience to the Laws, Morality, Happiness, Industry, Personal Security, Inheritance, Justice. In the quiver on his back, he offers all the vices of the French Revolution: Cruelty, Equality Madness, Anarc[h]y Murder, Treason Rebellion, Perjury, Atheism, Misery, Famine, National & Private Ruin, Ingratitude Idleness, Treachery, and Injustice.
Princeton copy 1 Forms part of: The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution.

Discovery Information

Subject
Paine, Thomas 1737-1809—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/109fba88-3de0-4388-bac3-13ca97e2c40b/manifest