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WHYTESSINCE 1783
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81
Irish School, early 19th Century
VIEW OF DUBLIN ALONG THE LIFFEY FROM
VICTORIA QUAY, DEPICTING THE WATLING
STREET AND QUEEN STREET BRIDGES AND THE
FOUR COURTS BEYOND
oil on canvas
12 by 14in. (30.48 by 35.56cm)
Provenance:
Whyte’s, 18 November 2003, lot 116;
Private collection
The present view is an exact replica of the engraving
of Petrie’s View for the Excursions Through Ireland,
titled Barracks & Queen’s Bridge, Dublin,engraved by
T. Barber, published by Longman’s & Co., London.
In this journeyman artist’s rendering of the view along
Dublin’s Liffey from the westernmost extremity of the
Liffey quays - the site of the Guinness Brewery - we
have a charming and historically interesting work.The
large mock-medieval gateway - at the southern foot
of the Watling Street Bridge - was erected in 1812.
Designed by Francis Johnson, it was known as the
Richmond Tower, after the Duke of Richmond. By the
mid 1840s however, when the new railway station
opened at King’s Bridge (now Heuston Station), traffic
along the quays increased and the tower gate was
deemed an obstruction.Thus it was moved circa 1846
to its present location at the western entrance to the
Royal Hospital at Kilmainham.
Also visible in the painting is an early version of
Watling Street Bridge (later replaced with a flat bridge
to accommodate traffic) and the elegantly curved,
three-arched Queen Street bridge, with its distinctive
balustraded parapet and granite niches, still in
evidence today. In the foreground a barge pushes off
shore, laden with barrels which are more than likely
from the Guinness brewery and would have been
floated downstream to be loaded onto larger ships.
€2,000- €3,000 (£1,700-£2,600 approx.)
82
Irish School, 18th/19th Century
PORTRAIT OF THE 1st PRESIDENT OF ROYAL
COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, SAMUEL CROKER-KING
(1728-1817)
oil on canvas laid on board
33.75 by 27in. (85.73 by 68.58cm)
Provenance:
The Collection of the Pytts Family, Kyre Park,
Worcestershire, England;
Thence descent;
Private collection
An unsigned portrait of the sitter can be found in the
Collection of the RCSI, Stephen’s Green, Dublin and is
reproduced in an article, O’Brien, Eoin, ‘The Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland: Bicentennial Tribute’,
Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and
Surgeons, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1984, p.30.
€3,000- €4,000 (£2,600-£3,400 approx.).)