Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Petrie, George, 1790-1866
Title:
Picturesque sketches of some of the finest landscape and coast scenery of Ireland / from drawings by George Petrie, A. Nicholl and H. O'Neill. Vol. 1.
Published / Created:
Dublin : William Frederick Wakeman; 1835.

London : Ackermann and Company : 1835.
Physical Description:
48 p, [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Aquatints by Charles Hunt, George Hunt, John Harris, Newton Fielding, and S.G. Hughes; after Andres Nicholl, Henry O'Neill, and George Petrie.
Contents:
Benandanar, & the Stack, Port Moon Co. Antrim -- Lower Lake, Killarney -- The Four Courts, Kingston Cave, Co. Tipperary -- The Meeting of the Water, Co. Wicklow -- Waterfall in the Devil's Glen, Co. Wicklow -- Doon Point, Island of Rathlin -- Scene in the Dargle, Co. Wicklow -- Kenbaan Castle, Co. Antrim -- Comeen-Duff or Black Valley, Killarney -- Waterfall, Powerscourt -- Pike of the Gap of Dunlow, Killarney -- Castle Howard -- Googan Barra, Co. of Cork -- Rendonegan Lake -- Port Coon Cave, Co. Antrim --Ess-Waterfall, Glen Malure -- Twelve Pins, Connemara -- Glen of the Downs -- The Second Meeting of the Waters -- Vale of Ovoca -- Sugar-Loaf Hills, Co. Wicklow -- Waterfall at Glenmancanass, Co. Wicklow -- New Bridge, Vale of Ovoca, Co. Wicklow -- Shelton Abbey, Co. Wicklow.
Subject Terms:
Ireland -- Description and travel. | Architecture, Domestic -- Ireland. | Landscape -- Ireland. | William Frederick Wakeman -- Publisher. | Ackermann and Company -- Publisher. | Hodgson, Boys, and Graves -- Publisher. | Tilt, Charles -- Publisher. | Hardy, P.D. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Embossed cloth bindings (Binding) | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1835.
Contributors:
Nicholl, Andrew, 1804–1866, ill. | O'Neill, Henry, 1798–1880, ill. | Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856, engraver. | Harris, John, 1791?-1873, engraver. | Hughes, S. G., active 1831–1833, engraver. | Hunt, Charles, active 1825–1857, engraver. | Hunt, George, active 1824–1831, engraver. | Westley, Francis, bookseller, binding designer.