Shankhill Castle, Co. Kilkenny

Details

George Miller (fl. 1815-19) and James George Robertson (1816-99)
Shankhill Castle, Co. Kilkenny
with inscription 'Shankhill Castle/by G. Miller/1814' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour heightened with touches of white and with gum arabic
13 x 18¾ in. (33 x 48.1 cm.)

Provenance

L.R. Strangeways, Dublin.
A. Mantanana, Camberley.
With Thomond Antiques, Killarney.

Literature

Crookshank & Glin, The Watercolours of Ireland, 1994, pp. 145-146, pl. 187.

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Lot Essay

Now home to the distinguished Irish artist Elizabeth Cope, Shankhill Castle began its life as a tower house but was rebuilt in 1708 and set in a formal landscape with an ornamental canal to the rear. In the 19th Century it was enlarged and castellated, and it must have been after these alterations that George Miller, an artist, and James George Robertson, a professional architect, visited the property.

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