Regular visitors to this stream will know that it's been a constant struggle to find photographs with dogs in them to satisfy our resident canophile DannyM8. So in a break from scheduled programming, here's an engraving from our collections of prints and drawings. I'm going to try mix it up a bit from now on by adding some digitised maps or prints or ephemera, in addition to our daily photograph. Hope you'll all enjoy them. No doubt I'll hear about it if you don't! And as ever, any and all information will be very gratefully received...
Here then is Lady Boyd, Countess of Errol (born Rebecca Lockhart) with her faithful hound, unless he's just there as an artistic prop given that she's depicted as the Huntress Diana. It is a mezzotint engraving by James McArdell after a painting by Allan Ramsay.
Date: 1749
Size: Image 32 x 25 cm on sheet 35 x 25 cm
NLI Ref.: EP ERRO-RE (1) II
Tags: Lady Boyd Countess of Erroll James McArdell Allan Ramsay Rebecca Hay Rebecca Lockhart Diana Huntress Mezzotint Engraving Dog Hound Collar Pearls Crescent Moon Silks Satins Spear Prints and Drawings 1749 1740s 18th century National Library of Ireland Alexander Lockhart Lord Covington James Hay 15th Earl of Erroll Cane
For those of you who like your maps, this is a watercolour plan by an I. Hardy of the Battle of Ballinamuck in Co. Longford showing Position of the English & French Armies previous to the Surrender of the latter at Balinamuck ... 8th September 1798.
[It is also, to my shame, the first Longford image on our Commons photostream - something I hope to rectify!]
Artist: I. Hardy
Date: Circa 1798
Size: 26 x 19.3 cm on sheet 30.3 x 23.7 cm
NLI Ref.: PD HP (1798) 20
Tags: Map Plan Battle of Ballinamuck 1798 1798 Rebellion Ballinamuck Longford I. Hardy 18th century Irish Mile Prints and Drawings National Library of Ireland Ireland Leinster Shanmullagh September General Humbert Lord Cornwallis Jean Humber Charles Cornwallis General Lake Gerard Lake Light Infantry French Army French Cavalry Rebel force Scale
We were wondering about where this dinner was held. Research in contemporary newspapers revealed that there were a few Jublilee Dinners in Dublin on that Saturday 13th August in 1814. However the Lord Mayor attended the one at the Rotunda according to the Freeman's Journal, while the Lord Lieutenant "was not present". As our ticket here is "Under the Patronage and Direction of the Corporation of the City of Dublin, a Dinner at the Rotunda attended by the Lord Mayor of Dublin looks like a better bet...
(Engraving attributed to one of the Brocas Family)
Date: Saturday, 13 August 1814
Size: 17.6 x 12.5 cm
NLI Ref.: PD 2177 (TX) 5
Tags: Dinner Ticket Dublin Corporation Saturday 13th August 1814 Centenary House of Hanover Birthday Prince Regent George IV King George IV Crown Plumes Ship Crest Ich dien Brocas Brocas Family National Library of Ireland Prints and Drawings Rotunda Dublin Ireland Leinster 19th Century
This lithograph shows Mrs Ellen Byrne as she appeared in court 171 years ago today, charged with the murder of her husband, Augustine. Would love to know more about the story behind this image...
Date: Monday, 15 August 1842
Published by: W.H. Holbrooke, 4 Crow Street, Dublin
Size: Image 19 x 17.5 cm on a sheet 28 x 22.2 cm
NLI Ref.: EP BYRN-EL (1) II
Tags: Ellen Byrne Augustine Byrne 15th August 1842 1840s Murder Court Hat Veil Shawl Flowers Handkerchief Dublin Ireland Leinster Lithograph Prints and Drawings W.H. Holbrooke Engraving 4 Crow Street Crow Street Widow National Library of Ireland 19th Century
Scenes of the siege at Tim Hurley's Mill at Castleview in Co. Cork. This was a momentous enough event to be reproduced in a colour supplement from the United Ireland newspaper...
Would especially like to know about "Bringing the Land League Hut from Clonakilty to Castleview", if anyone can enlighten us...
Date: Published Saturday, 30 October 1886
Published by: United Ireland Newspaper
Size: 35.5 x 27.5 cm
NLI Ref.: PD United Ireland 1886 October 30 (A)
Tags: United Ireland Saturday 30th October 1886 1880s Siege Eviction Policemen Land League Hut Castleview Cork Ireland Munster Wm. Theodore Parkes William Theodore Parkes J.D. Reigh John D. Reigh Hurley's Mill Tim Hurley Fr. Lucey Francis Bennett Bailiffs Battering Ram Land League Newspaper Supplements Fr. O'Leary R.I.C. Royal Irish Constabulary Head Constable Brooks Mill Evictions 19th Century