The Cries of Dublin, Drawn from the Life by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (2003)
William Laffan (ed.)
Published in association with the Irish Georgian Society
With contributions from Toby Barnard, Joseph McDonnell, Brendan Rooney and Sean Shesgreen
The discovery in Australia of an album of hitherto unknown drawings by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808) caused a sensation in Irish historical and art historical circles. The album is unique in eighteenth-century Irish art in its realistic depiction of the most humble citizens of Dublin, the hawkers who made their living on the streets of the capital. Almost entirely ignored in the art of the period, the urban poor are here depicted going about their daily lives. The album provides a panorama of eighteenth-century Dublin – beggars, tricksters, hawkers of fish, wigs and brogues.
The volume published these drawings for the first time and includes essays by an international team of scholars exploring the images from historical, economic, stylistic and iconographical perspectives.
Product details
Pages: 205
Illustrations: 101
Price: €25 (paperback), €40 (hard back, Note very limited stocks are available)
ISBN: 0-9545691-0-5
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Reviews
From the Preface by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin
"The drawings will provide material for students of costume, foodstuffs, transport and social history generally for many years to come. It was clearly important therefore that the album be made available to scholars as soon as possible and we are delighted that it has been published so quickly, and so expertly as it is here by a team of scholars co-ordinated by William Laffan…..The publication is the most sustained analysis of a single artwork from eighteenth-century Ireland to have ever been undertaken."
Huon Mallalieu, Country Life
"An important and easily accessible addition to the history of Georgian Ireland."
Peter Pearson, Sunday Business Post
"To say that this is one of the most original and important books about the capital would be no exaggeration."
