At head of image: Mr Bromley in his Catalogue &c. p. 390. has erroneously put this Portrait into his Seventh Class. - It ought to have appeared in the Tenth. See the Contents of it. p. 449. "Such cursed assurance," "Is past all Endurance." Maid of the Mill.
A travesty of Hugh Douglas Hamilton's half length portrait of Samuel Ireland. In both, Ireland wears the dress of a Rubens picture, and looks over his right shoulder, holding up folds of drapery which hang from the left shoulder. The original is young and handsome, with well-dressed hair, tied and falling on his shoulder. Gillray follows closely the pose and dress of the original, but the head is that of an older man, with a sly smile; his short curling hair recedes from his forehead. In his hand is a book, 'Ireland Shakspe . . .'