interesting speculation re influence of contemporaneous painting on the representation of the judiciary and the populace in the irish land war, pointed out in the paragraph copied into featured image for this post, taken from the excellent work aloysius o’kelly: art, nation, empire by niamh o’sullivan, field day publications/university of notre dame, 2010
b&w, artist aloysius o’kelly – published by the illustrated london news – 5 feb 1881 – titled “disturbed ireland: before the magistrate”.
colour, artist william frederick yeames, 1878, and when did you last see your father?
the empire of the senses 