a large caricature drawing of assembled dignitaries, military and other local figures, including a suspicious figure in black, pouring wine with his back turned to the crowd, wearing a cockade hat, after a variant of a composition by Finucane first drawn c.1798, pen and ink with watercolour over pencil, 415 x 565mm., laid on board support with a gilt plywood window mount pasted to recto sheet edges, a short tear lower right, unframed, [19th century]. Matthias Finucane (c.1778-1810) was a miniaturist and occasional caricaturist of rather obscure Irish descent, who reputedly settled in the Channel Islands after joining the army to escape a murder charge. Jersey Heritage holds the two related compositions attributed to Finucane. One a signed watercolour, with the same figures but some disposed differently, the other an overpainted lithograph corresponding exactly to this drawing, seemingly its original. The figures in the print have been numbered by hand, presumably for a key to identify the various characters, as also found in an aquatint of Finucane's similarly populated depiction of Guernsey Market Place (posthumously published by T. Clay in 1822), where the artist reputedly caricatured the subjects to a greater or lesser degree depending on their willingness to pay for the privilege of being portrayed. Our thanks to Val Nelson and Dinah Bott of Jersey Heritage and the Priaulx Library, respectively, for their assistance.