Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Date:
1701-1860
Type/Formats:
Collection — StillImage
Media type:
image/tiff
Contributor:
University College, Dublin. Library. School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Abstract:
Selection of 35mm slides from the collection of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, focusing on the domestic architecture of eighteenth-century Dublin.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributor:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Abstract:
House built on ground leased to James Higgins, bricklayer c1768-9. Formerly part of the Mount Eccles estate.
Dates:
1776-1779 — 1776
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — Stapleton, Michael, 1747-1801 — Hume, Gustavus, 1732-1812
Abstract:
St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 16 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume and decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton. [ … ]
Dates:
1776-1779 — 1776
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — Stapleton, Michael, 1747-1801 — Hume, Gustavus, 1732-1812 — Leeson, Joseph, Earl of Milltown (Irish peer, politician, 1701-1783)
Abstract:
St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. No. 17 built 1776-79 by Gustavus Hume for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Decorated by the Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton: drawings for the interiors form part... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — West, Robert, ca. 1730-1790 — St George, St George, 1st Baron Saint George, c.1715–1775
Abstract:
The house was built in c1760 for Usher St George, created Lord St George in 1763. The plasterwork is attributed to Robert West.
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — Castle, Richard — Tyrone, Marcus Beresford, Earl of Tyrone, 1694-1763 — Lafranchini, Paolo, 1695-1776
Abstract:
Designed in 1740 by Richard Castle for Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone. Plasterwork attributed to Paolo Lafranchini, based on similar work of 1730s and professional association with Castle.
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — West, Robert, ca. 1730-1790 — St George, St George, 1st Baron Saint George, c.1715–1775
Abstract:
The house was built in c1760 for Usher St George, created Lord St George in 1763. The plasterwork is attributed to Robert West.
Dates:
1760-1769 — 1760
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — Pearce, Edward Lovett, 1699-1733 — Gardiner, Charles, 1720-1769
Abstract:
The residence of Luke Gardiner, the house dates to the late 1720s. Sir Edward Lovett Pearce credited with some assistance in design. Originally of four-bays wide (at right), the house was enlarged and re-modelled on numerous occasions beginning c1755. Ceiling of the former saloon, added c1755 by... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Architectural photographs
Contributors:
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy — Lafranchini, Paolo, 1695-1776 — Harman, Cutts, Rev., 1706-1784
Abstract:
Built c1756 for the Rev. Cutts Harman, Dean of Waterford. Now the St Stephen's Green Club. The decorative plasterwork is attributed to Paolo Lafranchini, given its similarity to comparable work executed by him at Castletown, Co. Kildare in 1759. The iconography of the figurative centrepiece of this... [ … ]