Forms part of a collection of 20 watercolor drawings by Cruikshank to illustrate W.H. Maxwell's History of the Irish Rebellion.
Drawing for an etched illustration for History of the Irish rebellion (London : Baily Brothers, 1845).
Each drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below the image in pen and brown ink, with a graphite sketch in the margin at right; in pencil on mount at lower right: p. 61.
Drawing shows a mob of Irish rebels, armed with pikes, slaughtering the British soldiers as they attempt to escape from the burning barracks, some soldiers jumping from the windows and being impaled on the spears, with onlookers beyond and to the right; with a sketch in graphite of a man with a spear in the margin at right.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.