كتاب
William Ashford's Mount Merrion: the absent point of view
| العنوان: | William Ashford's Mount Merrion: the absent point of view Mount Merrion |
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| المؤلفون: | O'Kane, Finola. |
| المساهمون: | Ashford, William, approximately 1746-1824. Mount Merrion near Dublin, the seat of Viscount Fitzilliam, in twenty-four views., Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| بيانات النشر: | Tralee [Ireland] : Churchill House Press, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| وصف مادي: | 96 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, plan ; 25 x 31 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Landscape painting, Irish -- 19th century -- Themes, motives. |
| Subject Person: | Ashford, William, approximately 1746-1824. Mount Merrion near Dublin, the seat of Viscount Fitzwilliam, in twenty-four views. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Mount Merrion (Dublin, Ireland) -- History., Mount Merrion (Dublin, Ireland) -- In art. |
| الوصف: | "William Ashford’s Mount Merrion: The Absent Point of View by Finola O’Kane explores a remarkable album of drawings depicting the suburban demesne of Mount Merrion situated a few miles from Dublin. Part of his bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the drawings were commissioned in 1804 by the museum’s founder Viscount Fitzwilliam from his friend the landscape painter William Ashford (1746-1824), later to be the inaugural President of the Royal Hibernian Academy. This study by Finola O’Kane publishing the drawings and a series of related paintings for the first time in their entirety. It moves from an exploration of Mount Merrion’s history, architecture and landscape design to wider questions of the Fitzwilliam family’s medieval ancestry; the substantial reach of their Dublin estate; and their enthusiastic role in Dublin’s eighteenth-century property boom which in effect re-orientated the whole city to the east"-- |
| Original Identifier: | ocn823345423 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-9550246-6-5 0-9550246-6-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | "Mount Merrion near Dublin, seat of Viscount Fitzilliam, in twenty-four views by William Ashford, 1806": P. [38]-96. Map on inside front and back covers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-37). |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013652600.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780955024665 0955024668 |
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