Multitext - Politics and Administration in Ireland, 1770-1815.

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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and second marquess of Londonderry (1769-1822), politician, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1809-10.	‘The Royal Exchange, Dublin’, by James Malton c. 1792. View of the Royal Exchange, from Lord Edward Street looking down to Dame Street, Dublin. It was one of the first buildings in the city to be built in [...]	The portico of the Parliament House c. 1795. Drawn by Robert Smirke, engraved by Thomas & James Malton. This view of Parliament House is taken from the west showing Trinity College, Dublin in the distance.
‘The Parliament House, Dublin’, by James Malton c. 1793. View of the Parliament House, College Green, Dublin, Ireland, showing the West Front of Trinity College. According to Maurice Craig, Malton chose this [...]	‘View of the Law-Courts, looking up the Liffey, Dublin’, by James Malton c. 1799. View of the of the Four Courts, from Ormonde Bridge (swept away in a flood in 1802), Dublin. The building was still incomplete at this time.	View of the Custom House, Dublin, by James Malton, c. 1792. View of the Custom House, Dublin, Ireland, from the River Liffey. Building began in 1781 from the designs of James Gandon, and must have been complete [...]
Charles Cornwallis, first Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), by John Smart, 1792. Governor-general of Fort William in Bengal (1786-1793) and Irish viceroy (1798-1801).	William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, second Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain, and fourth Earl Fitzwilliam in peerage of Ireland (1748-1833), by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1827. Patriot, landowner, Irish viceroy (1794-1795).	Arthur O’Connor (1763-1852), by John Godefroy (after François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard, c. 1804). Irish nationalist and political theorist.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, c. 1796-8. Irish nationalist and army officer.	Thomas Russell (1767-1803), by unknown artist. Irish nationalist.	Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798), by an unknown artist. Irish nationalist and political writer.
William Pitt ‘The Younger’ (1759-1806), by John Keyse Sherwin, 1789 (after Thomas Gainsborough, begun 1787).’ British prime minister (1783-1801, 1804-6).	John Foster, first Baron Oriel (1740-1828), politician, by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1791.	John Fitzgibbon, first earl of Clare (1748-1802), by Gilbert Stuart, 1789. Attorney-General for Ireland (1783), and later Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1789-1802).
John Beresford (1738-1805), politician, by Charles Howard Hodges, published 1790 (after Gilbert Stuart).	Adam Smith, (c. 1723-1790), moral philosopher and political economist.	The Lisburn and Lambeg Volunteers firing a ‘feu de joie’ [fire of joy] in the Market Square at Lisburn, in honour of the Convention of 1782, after John Carey, c. 1943
The Muster of the Irish Volunteers in College Green, 4 November 1779. After Francis Wheatley, 1779. Colour print from an original by Francis Wheatley, in the possession of the National Gallery of Ireland.	‘Great Court Yard, Dublin Castle’, by James Malton c. 1792. View of Upper Castle Yard, Dublin Castle.	View of Castle Gate and Royal Exchange [now City Hall] by Henry Brocas, c. 1820. After a drawing by Samuel Frederick Brocas. View of Palace Street from Dame Street, looking towards Dublin Castle.
Henry Flood (1732-1791), politician, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton.	Frederick North, second earl of Guildford [Lord North] (1732-1792), by Nathaniel Dance, 1773-74. British prime minister, 1770-82.	Frederick Howard, fifth earl of Carlisle (1748-1825), by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1769. Politician, diplomat and Irish viceroy, 1780-82.
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, third duke of Portland (1738-1809), by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1792. Irish Viceroy (1782) and British prime minister (1783 & 1807-9).	William Eden, first Baron Auckland (1744-1814), by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1792. Penal reformer and diplomatist.	Charles Watson-Wentworth, second marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782), by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1766-8. Politician, British prime minister, 1765-66 and 1782.
King George III (1738–1820), by Allan Ramsay, 1761–2. King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover.	George Ogle (1742-1814), politician, by an unkown engraver, published 1777.	Denis Daly (1747-1791), politician, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
James Caulfeild (1728-1799), first earl of Charlemont, by Pompeo Batoni, c 1753-56. Patriot and politician.	John Hobart (1723-1793), Second Earl of Buckinghamshire, by Thomas Gainsborough. Irish viceroy (1776-1780)	Edmond Sexton Pery (1719-1806), by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1788. Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.
John Wilkes (1725-1797), by Johan Zoffany, c. 1779-82 [shown with his daughter Mary WIlkes]. Politician and advocate of parliamentary reform.	Charles Lucas, by James Macardell (after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1755).	Simon Harcourt (1714-1777), First Earl Harcourt, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1754-5. Politician, administrator, and Irish viceroy (1772-6).
George Townshend (1724-1807), First Marquess Townshend, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1778-9. Politician, caricaturist, and Irish viceroy (1767–1772).	Henry Grattan, by Alexander Pope c. 1841.

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