A man of importance, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray

Lord Moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background (BM). / A nobleman frequently attacked by the Tory press of this period, on account of the part he took in Irish politics. The verses are taken from the Anti-Jacobin, a Tory journal remarkable for its bitterness. He voted, however, for the Union, in opposition to his own party, the Whigs, who were generally opposed to that measure (Wright/Evans).

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Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.

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