Henry Munro chief of the Irish rebels [graphic].

[London] : Pub. July 1, 1798, at Ackermanns Gallery, N. 101, Strand, [1 July 1798]

1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 26.3 x 32 cm

wove paper

From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.

"Monroe (not caricatured), heavily armed, carrying a long spear across his shoulder, rides, right to left, across a grassy mound, followed by a rabble of ill-armed and ragged Irishmen. In the background small figures flee from burning buildings. Beneath the title: 'Who Commanded on the 13th of June 1798 an Army of about 7000 Rebels, on the high grounds behind Lord Moira's house, near Ballynahinch was after the defeat of his Army taken prisoner the 15th Inst skulking in the fields. . . . he was tried by a Court Martial at Lisburn, where he had been a Shopkeeper) and on the Evidence of his own Adherents he was found guilty of High Treason and executed before his own door...'."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

April 12, 2016

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9235