Domestic Architecture of Georgian Dublin Collection


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.

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Henrietta Street, No. 7: stairhall ceiling


Henrietta Street, No. 7: stairhall ceiling

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Henrietta Street, No. 10: ceiling of chapel


Henrietta Street, No. 10: ceiling of chapel

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Marlborough Street, Tyrone House: ceiling of saloon


Marlborough Street, Tyrone House: ceiling of saloon

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Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour (detail)


Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour (detail)

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Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour


Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour

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Kildare Street, No. 45: ceiling of stairhall


Kildare Street, No. 45: ceiling of stairhall

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St. Stephen's Green, No. 86: ceiling of saloon


St. Stephen's Green, No. 86: ceiling of saloon

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St. Stephen's Green, No. 9: ceiling of saloon


St. Stephen's Green, No. 9: ceiling of saloon

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Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: ceiling of stairhall (detail)


Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: ceiling of stairhall (detail)

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St. Stephen's Green, No. 17: ceiling of stairhall


St. Stephen's Green, No. 17: ceiling of stairhall

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St. Stephen's Green, No. 86: ceiling of Bishop's Room


St. Stephen's Green, No. 86: ceiling of Bishop's Room

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St. Stephen's Green, No. 9: ceiling of saloon (detail)


St. Stephen's Green, No. 9: ceiling of saloon (detail)

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St. Stephen's Green, No. 17: ceiling of front drawing room


St. Stephen's Green, No. 17: ceiling of front drawing room

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Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: ceiling of stairhall


Dominick Street Lower, No. 20: ceiling of stairhall

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Kildare Street, No. 45: ceiling of stairhall


Also known as Doneraile House. Built in 1753 to designs by John Ensor for the Hon. Hayes St Leger, later 4th Viscount Doneraile.

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Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: ceiling of front parlour (detail)


The street was laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1729-30. Originally a single five-bay house. Built by Nathaniel Clements for Henry, 8th Earl of Thomond (d.1741). First resident (in 1743) was Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 56: saloon


The house was built in c1760 for Usher St George, created Lord St George in 1763. The plasterwork is attributed to Robert West.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 86: ceiling of stairhall


No. 86 St Stephen's Green now forms part of Newman House (together with No. 85 St Stephen's Green). It was built for Richard Chapel Whaley from 1765. The design of the house and its stuccoed interiors are attributed to Robert West. A major conservation and restoration project undertaken in 1989-93.

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St Stephen's Green, No. 17: stairhall, view towards rear of house


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 of the Stapleton Collection at the National Library of Ireland.

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Rotunda Hospital Chapel: ceiling cartouche


Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

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Rotunda Hospital Chapel: ceiling plasterwork


Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

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Rotunda Hospital Chapel: ceiling plasterwork


Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

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Great Denmark Street, No. 3: ceiling of drawing room (detail)


House built on ground leased to James Higgins, bricklayer c1768-9. Formerly part of the Mount Eccles estate.

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