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McCleary
Lieutenant Starlight
colored engraving
image: 282 x 191 mm
Peel 2023
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
Image trimmed, strip containing title pasted onto lower edge of image.
Summary:
Full-length image of Irish folk character Lieutenant Starlight, portrayed as a ragged young man in a tan coat. He stands leaning both hands on a rifle, and in addition to the bottles protruding from his coat pockets he wears a powder horn slung at his side. A large bunch of greenery is tucked into the white ribbon tied around his hat, which reads "ERIN GO BRAUGH."
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