Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Nasty birth of the mischieveous author.

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Nasty birth of the mischieveous author.

Published

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1792?]

etching
sheet: 136 x 186 mm
Peel 1700
Notes
Fleet Street bookseller Jeremiah Samuel Jordan was arrested on charges of sedition in 1792 for the publication and sale of Paine's Rights of man.
Caption title followed by two lines of verse at right, beginning, "Neither born nor begotten ..."
Library's copy closely trimmed, with the lower right hand corner cut away with loss to text following title.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Thomas Paine emerging from the anus of a defecating devil, at right, shown in flight with "Yankee Doodle" directly above at top right; Paine hangs upside-down, holding a copy of his Rights of man, with his head directed at the doorway of a bookshop, standing at left, lettered with the name of "Jordan" (i.e., Jeremiah Samuel Jordan) over the doorway.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department