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Books

The Cries of Dublin, Drawn from the Life
by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (2003)
  Miscelanea Structura Curiosa (2005)

Book cover: The Cries of Dublin 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.

 

 

Book cover: Miscelanea Structura Curiosa Preserved in an album in Birr Castle for two hundred and fifty years, the fantastical and bizarre world of Samuel Chearnley is revealed in this the first edition of Miscelanea Structura Curiosa.

Painting Ireland, Topographical Views from Glin Castle (2006)   The Stapleton Collection: Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior (2007)

Book cover: Painting Ireland Over the last three decades the eminent art historian Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin has assembled a collection of views of Ireland, ranging in date from the mid-eighteenth century to today.

 

Book cover: the Stapleton Collection Michael Stapleton (1747-1801) was the most skilled stuccodor working in the neoclassical or ‘Adam’ style that dominated Dublin interior decoration in the final decades of the eighteenth century.

Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2009)    

Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2009) Although Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) is justly regarded as the finest Irish landscape painter of the eighteenth century, he is still little appreciated outside specialist circles.