Portrait of an Irish chief : drawn from life at Wexford.
[London] : Pubd. July 10, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street , [1798]
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.