<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>"The rights of man, or, Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches [graphic].</dc:title><dc:creator>Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[23 May 1791]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions.  He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.</dc:description><dc:description>At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!"</dc:description><dc:description>Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>