Thomas Paine in Art

Clio Rickman

Thomas “Clio” Rickman, Poet, Bookseller And Radical Publisher 

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1992 Number 1 Volume 2

In 1792, Rickman met Thomas Paine with whom he had frequently corresponded. They soon became firm friends and Paine benefited from Rickman’s knowledge of languages and classical education. Paine lived with Rickman and his second wife and whilst there he completed the second part of Rights of Man.

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An effigy of Paine created by ‘Polyp’ - link

Tom Paine – The La Mama Production of Paul Foster’s Play

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1967 Number 3 Volume 2

Surprisingly, in view of the apparent motivations of the author, the piece is in no sense a dramatisation of Paine’s career. Tom is represented on the stage (inordinately unappetisingly, as it happens), but Foster merely uses the man’s words and ideas as a springboard into dark pools of surrealist fantasy.

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“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

The Stirrings In Sheffield On Saturday Night

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1966 Number 2 Volume 2

To hear “God save great Thomas Paine” sung on an English stage is surely a rare experience. This was the privilege of the audiences at Sheffield Playhouse recently, during the presentation of “The Stirrings in Sheffield on Saturday Night”, a sort of documentary with music written by Alan Cullen. 

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