• “Wha Wants Me?” (colored engraving, 1792)

Collections:
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
  • The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors (Lapidus Milberg Exhibit 2025)
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Language:
  • English
Creator:
  • Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811
Call number:
  • Lapidus 4.48f
Extent:
  • 1 sheet ; 38 x 35 cm
Format:
  • Visual material
Description:
  • 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.
Publisher:
  • [London?] : S. Fores, 1792.
Subject:
  • Paine, Thomas 1737-1809—Caricatures and cartoons
Source acquisition:
  • Princeton copy 1 Gift, Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2010.
Created:
  • 1792-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1792
Location:
  • Special Collections Lapidus 4.48f
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/ms35t938w
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Artist:
  • Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811
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