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Tom Paine's Nightly Pest   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
Description
English: Another version, reversed, of BMSat 8132. Paine (right) lies as before, but his legs and feet, which were hidden by straw and by cloud, project from under his coat, and the crisping of his toes indicates agitation caused by his dream. The three headless judges (left) with dependent scrolls are as before, with the addition of a cloud-shaped scroll ascending from the central wig, inscribed:



'Know Villain, when such paltry slaves presume
To mix in Treason, if the Plot succeeds
They're thrown neglected by - but if it fails
Theyre sure to die like dogs! as you shall do.'

In place of the prison wall is a glory of rays issuing from a sun in the centre of which are the scales of Justice. This is surmounted by shackles and by a scroll inscribed "The Scourge inexorable, and the tort'ring hour, awaits thee". Beneath are, as before, a gibbet (with the addition of a ladder) and a pillory. Between them are a scourge and birch-rod tied together. The inscriptions on the three scrolls are as before except that in 'Charges' 'Falshoods' takes the place of 'Lies', and to 'Punishments' is added 'Extinction from Society'. The inscriptions on Paine's book, &c, are as before except that the alternative title of 'Common Sense is or convincing Reasons for Britons turning Sans Culottes.' The fleurs-de-lis on the tattered curtain are larger and more conspicuous. Above the bed, in place of the crumbling wall, is an open casement window out of which flies a terrified demon with his tail between his legs; he holds a fiddle, but drops his bow and a sheet of music inscribed 'Ca-ira'. Through the window appear clouds and a full moon. 10 December 1792


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 296 millimetres
Width: 362 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.625
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Evidently published in anticipation of Paine's trial, 18 Dec. 1792 (postponed from 8 June when he had appeared in court), for publishing (Feb. 1792) in 'The Rights of Man Part II', 'a scandalous libel on the Constitution, Laws and Government of England'. Cf. BMSat 7867, &c. Paine had fled to France, see BMSat 8131, whence he wrote a letter to the Attorney-General suggesting that he and 'Mr Guelph' might take warning from the example made of similar persons in France. Paine was outlawed and never returned to England. 'State Trials', xxii; 'D.N.B.'; P. A. Brown, 'The French Rev. in English Hist.', pp. 87-8, &c. See also BMSats 8146, 8152.

Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 156-7 (reproduction). Wright and Evans, No. 91. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-625
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