Picture No | 10072069 |
Date | 1792 |
Description | Cartoon, Tom Paine's Nightly Pest |
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Cartoon, Tom Paine's Nightly Pest, by James Gillray. Showing the radical Thomas Paine asleep in bed, with two guardian angels, Charles James Fox and Joseph Priestley, and the imp of sedition escaping out of the window. Punishments, Charges and Pleas are listed on scrolls of paper (left), with hints at judgement, the pillory and even hanging for treason.
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Source | Engraved by Humphrey from an original cartoon by Gillray, 1792 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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