A Radical Reformer
Robert Cruikshank (1789–1856)
Engraving, published in London, December 1819
British Cartoon Prints Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Paine died in Greenwich Village on June 8, 1809, and was buried at his farm in New Rochelle. In 1819 journalist William Cobbett—a critic turned admirer—dug up his remains and carried them off to England for enshrinement. The contemplated memorial, however, was never built, and Paine’s bones ended up scattered over several continents, not altogether inappropriate for a man who proclaimed, “my country is the world.”
