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A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin is a set of 25 architectural prints of well-known buildings and views in Dublin, Ireland illustrated by the engraver, watercolourist, and draughtsman James Malton at the end of the 18th century. At the time of drawing in 1791, many of the buildings had been newly constructed and marked a ...
The Dublin Society invited Fisher to sit on a sub-committee to assess the quality of a new watercolour paint in 1783. A set of Fisher's Views of Killarney and 3 sets of his Scenery of Ireland were acquired by the Society to be used in their drawing schools. [3] His collection of 65 artworks was sold in Dublin after his death.
The National Gallery of Ireland (Irish: Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street. It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. [1]
'River Run' was designed by Dublin City Council Parks and Landscape Services to honour Dublin's designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. It is an element of a quote from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Grass Seed Saint Anne's Park, Raheny: early 1970s: unknown [24] The Mad Cow Saint Anne's Park: 1996: St. John Hennessy [24] Tree of Life Saint ...
The National Photographic Archive (Irish: Cartlann Grianghrafadóireachta Náisiúnta) [1] is located in Temple Bar in Dublin, Ireland, and holds the photographic collections of the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The archive was opened in 1998, and has a reading room and exhibition gallery.
The Hugh Lane Gallery, and originally the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, is an art museum operated by Dublin City Council and its wholly-owned company, the Hugh Lane Gallery Trust. [1] It is in Charlemont House (built 1763) on Parnell Square , Dublin , Ireland .
The Williams had been hatters for a number of generations, [3] dating back to an ancestor who settled in Ireland in the 1600s from Glamorganshire who was a felter. [4] In 1860 the family moved to Dublin, living at May 1860 to 19 Bayview Avenue, North Strand, Dublin. [2] The Williams first Dublin hat shop was on Westmoreland Street. [4]
Jonathan Fisher (fl. 1763–1809) – painter, engraver, and printmaker of aquatints of Irish scenery; Mary Fitzgerald (born 1956) – member of Aosdana, lives and works in Dublin and Co. Waterford; Jim Fitzpatrick (born 1944) – artist, especially of Irish Celtic art; T.P. Flanagan (1929–2011) – landscapes; John Henry Foley (1818–1874 ...