Twenty illustrious Irishmen. Coloured lithograph after J. Donaghy, 18--.

They are gathered in a rotunda supported by Ionic columns between which are openings showing episodes in Irish history and myth. Left to right: Patrick Sarsfield, standing, directed to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing armour and lace cravat; St Oliver Plunket and King Brian Boru standing in the back; John Philpot Curran and Thomas Davis seated at the front; Hugh O'Neill, wearing armour, with long beard, seated; Oliver Goldsmith seated in profile to left; Thomas Moore seated at the front with his left arm on a table, holding a paper; the two churchmen John MacHale, Roman Catholic archbishop of Tuam, and Father Theobald Mathew standing in the centre behind the table; Daniel O'Connell seated on an armchair at the front, turning to look at the viewer, holding a book over his knees; Theobald Wolfe Tone and Edmund Burke standing behind, both of them directed and looking to the right; Robert Emmet standing at the front, face turned looking to left, his left hand in his waistcoat; Richard Lalor Shiel standing in the back, directed and looking to right; Henry Grattan at the front, seated, directed to the right, a book on the floor next to his chair, facing Father Thomas Burke O.P., seated directed to left and holding a bible; Gerald Griffin standing in the back; William Smith O'Brien standing next to him, in profile to left; and John Mitchel on the far right, standing, at the front, with moustache and beard, looking at the viewer