“A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners” is a 1798 etching. The shield is supported by House of Lords radical Francis Russell and Thomas Paine wearing the Bonnet-rouge, a symbol of the French Revolution. Paine says: “So much for Ducal patriotism”. Beside the Duke are two books: ‘Age of Reason’ and ‘Sporting Cal[endar’; beside Paine, ‘Rights of Man’ and ‘Rights of Surgeons’ – Wellcome Collection

An Appreciation and Summary of Thomas Paine’s Classic Age of Reason 

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Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2009 Number 1 Volume 10

Paine offended powerful figures that might have been his patrons. He blamed ex-President Washington for failing to rescue him from prison; and he published a series of letters strongly attacking the Federalist party for failing to hold to the democratic principles of the American Revolution. 

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