Portrait of an Irish chief : drawn from life at Wexford.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Portrait of an Irish chief : drawn from life at Wexford.
etching and aquatint, hand colored
image: 354 x 253 mm; sheet: 356 x 254 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2953
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[London] : Pubd. July 10, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street , [1798]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

By James Gillray.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

Summary: 

Print shows an Irishman (identified in some sources as Henry Grattan), standing on a rounded hill, left arm raised oratorically, right hand on one of two pistols in his belt, saying, "No Union, Erin go Brach!" He wears a round hat tilted to one side, and with a small tuft or plume, a double-breasted coat with the skirts looped up, pantaloons and half-boots, a long sabre. He looks to the left On the plain beneath (right), across which run tiny fugitives, are burning buildings and clouds of smoke.

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