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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot), 1879
Charlotte Schreiber
British, Canadian, 1834
- 1922
oil on canvas
91.6 x 76.2 cm
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts diploma work, deposited by the artist, Toronto, 1880
National Gallery of Canada (no. 118)
The youth has knelt to tell his sins / Nomine Dei! the youth begins, / At the Siege of Ross, did my Father fall / and at Gorey my loving brothers all / I, alone, am left of my name and race / I will go to Wexford to take their place. / Now, Father, bless me before I go / To die, if God has ordained it so. / The Priest said naught, but a rustling noise / Made the youth look up in wild surprise; / The robes were off, and in scarlet there / Sat a yeoman captain with fiery glare; / With fiery glare, and with fury hoarse / Instead of blessing he breathed a curse / T'was a good thought boy to come here and shrive / For one short hour is your time to live. - Ballad of the time of the Irish rebellion
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And with greene boughes decking a gloomy glade, / About the fountaine like a girlond made
He pluckt a bough, out of whose rifte there came / Smal drops of gory bloud
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