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Portrait of an Irish chief; drawn from life at Wexford   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Portrait of an Irish chief; drawn from life at Wexford
Description
English: The Irishman, with coarse features and cropped hair, stands on a rounded hill, left arm raised oratorically, right hand on one of two pistols in his belt, saying, "No Union, Erin go Brack!" 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. 10 July 1798
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: Henry Grattan
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 366 millimetres
Width: 262 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1851,0901.928
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) He is said to be Grattan (at this time in England), but there is no resemblance to his portraits, or to other representations of him by Gillray. He refused to join the United Irishmen, but on the groundless charge of an informer of being a sworn member of that body he was struck off the Irish privy council on 6 Oct. 1798. The portrait is more probably a generalized one. Cf. a plate of a typical Irish insurgent in 1798, Wheeler and Broadley, 'The War in Wexford', 1909, p. 104, and the description of the Wexford men, ibid., p. 73. Among their varied banners was a flag with an Irish harp surmounted by a cap of Liberty and the motto 'Erin go bragh'. Ibid., p. 294 (pl.). For the Irish Rebellion see BMSat 9228, &c.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 243. Wright and Evans, No. 438. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-928
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