Royal Lord Edward FitzGerald Cabinet Card CDV Carte de Visite Irish Royalty IE

  

For your consideration is an exceptionally rare and historically important original antique c. 1950's cabinet card / CDV / carte de visite for Irish nobleman, Lord EdwardFitzGerald. Royal cabinet card measures approximately 2.5" x 4.0".

CDV is signed Lord E. Photograph by Lesage, Adolphe (1843-81). 1881, Mr Lesage, same address. A trade label on the back of a watercolour dated 1799 of Lt Col Pepper of Ballygarth, Co. Source: Glin,'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History (1985).

Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 - 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat and nationalist. He abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic.

Unable to reconcile with Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy or with the Kingdom's English-appointed administration, he sought inspiration in revolutionary France where, in 1792, he met and befriended Thomas Paine. From 1796 he became a leading proponent within the Society of United Irishmen of a French-assisted insurrection. On the eve of the intended uprising in May 1798, he was fatally wounded in the course of arrest.

Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 - 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat and nati.