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Sketches from Ireland: place where Mr. Nicholson was fired at, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

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Sketches from Ireland: place where Mr. Nicholson was fired at, 1870. View of '...the place where the assassin fired at Mr. Nicholson, last November, while driving in his own carriage along the public road. Mr. Nicholson escaped unhurt, but his coachman was killed. The murderer lurked in the field, having cut a notch in the top of the wall, in which to rest the end of the gun, as he crouched below, keeping himself out of sight. There are cottages within one or two hundred yards of the spot. The people dwelling there pretended that they had seen nobody, and that they heard no shots fired; although the assassins fired twice, and Mr. Nicholson's guard fired once. The case of this gentleman was mentioned in our last notice of the subject'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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HRM24A49_072

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38,0Mo (3,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 22,6cm / 4959 x 2675 (300dpi)

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countryside wall walls arts country law art crime British shooting republic of ireland irish republic Ireland eire Irish rustic location century Britain newspapers press print concept B&W notch engraved engraving Meath 19th century black & white black and white B W Leinster unrest nineteenth century rural The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Nicholson Éire Regionalism 19th-century The Illustrated London News Christopher Armytage Nicholson Christopher Armytage