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Fashion Before Ease;--or,--a Good Constitution Sacrificed For A Fantastic Form / G.w. Invt. [gillray F.]

Fashion Before Ease;--or,--a Good Constitution Sacrificed For A Fantastic Form / G.w. Invt. [gillray F.]

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TITLE:  Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantastic form / G.W. invt. [Gillray f.] CALL NUMBER:  PC 1 - 8287 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-3146 (color film copy transparency)LC-USZCN4-6 (color film copy transparency) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: Rights of Man. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: Thomas Pain, Staymaker from Thetford. Paris Modes, by express. MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving, color CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [London] : Published by H. Humphrey, 1793. NOTES: Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Paine, Thomas,--1737-1809. Britannia (Symbolic character)--1790-1800. Political issues--Great Britain--1790-1800. FORMAT: Cartoons British 1790-1800.Engravings Color British 1790-1800. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03146 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03146 (color film copy transparency) cph 3j00006 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00006 CONTROL #:  93502016