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Richard Hamilton saw this image of an Irish loyalist Orangeman as the natural companion to The citizen . ‘The Orangeman in full ceremonial rig is scarcely less extreme than is the blanket man’, he said. Like the prisoner, the Orangeman is surrounded by human waste and devastation: the abstract image on the left panel is from an infra-red video still of an armoured car driving through streets of bomb wreckage. The title refers to the people of Northern Ireland being subjects of the British Crown.