Custom House Dublin Ireland Vintage Colour Print 1957 IIC#81

Description: Custom House Dublin Ireland Vintage Colour Print 1957A colour print, from a disbound book about Ireland from 1957, with unrelated text on the reverse. Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 9.5" x 7" or 24cm x 18cm, printed edge to edge with no border. This is a vintage print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. The date given of 1957 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit.Please note: That while every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. The text below is for information only and is from the opposite separate page it cannot be supplied with the print - All spelling subject to the OCR program used Custom House, DublinThe Custom House, erected between the years 1781 and 1791, at a cost of £546,000, is the finest public building in Dublin; it represents the flowering of Dublin commerce and Irish parliamentary power in the eighteenth century. James Gandon, whose masterpiece it was, and who helped to make Dublin a capital rather than a provincial city, was brought from England by John Beresford the Banker. Here too, enlarging influences were at work, for Gandon, English-born of Huguenot parentage, was the pupil of a Scot who had studied in Rome. Invited by Princess Dashkoff to go to Petrograd he chose to settle in Dublin, and the Custom House is, in the words of an English critic, "as different from London as though it had risen on the banks of the Neva." Built by Irish artificers and decorated by the greatest of Irish sculptors, it has, on the main river front, a fine Doric portico with allegorical figures. Flanking each of the wings is a pavilion with the arms of Ireland above. A superb dome, topped by a statue of Hope resting on her anchor, surmounts the whole.In the foreground of the picture may be aptly seen the Lady Grania, belonging to the fleet of Guinness whose product has brought both fame and revenue to Dublin. A far cry, indeed, from the eighteenth-century "Irish Navy" which, it is estimated, consisted of some four hundred smuggling vessels carrying wines and brandies to the West of Ireland from the Continent and America, and patronised, if not subsidised, by the best Irish families.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2025-01-19T08:05:58.000Z

Shipping Cost: 23.51 GBP