Summary: | This original drawing by Sir Charles Grey, (1808-1892) was subsequently etched by John Kirkwood, (fl. 1826-1853) and published as a plate to the "Dublin University Magazine", xvii, 1841. Whole-length portrait of Philip Meadows Taylor, (1808-1876), colonel and Indian officer, author of "Confessions of a Thug". Meadows Taylor is seated by a table, his right arm resting on it, looking to left, side-whiskers and moustache, legs crossed with Meadows Taylor's autograph at bottom right of sheet. See NLI Call number EP TAYL-PH (1) I for the etching (the latter cited in 'Catalogue of Irish Portraits' by Rosalind M. Elmes, published Dublin, 1975 : p. 200).
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