Daniel O'Connell, Esqr. Member of Parliament for the County of Clare.
I. Dadley delt. et Sculpt. London, Published 1843, for the Proprietor by Jucks & Son, 111, Newgate Street. Engraving, sheet 320 x 420mm. 12½ x 16½". Trimmed to plate. Bust in profile of Daniel O'Connell (1775 – 1847) in an oval frame surmounted by a bay leaf crown. Known as 'The Liberator', or 'The Emancipator', O'Connell was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation - the right for Catholics to sit in the Westminster Parliament, denied for over 100 years - and Repeal of the Union between Ireland and Great Britain. A rare portrait.
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