John Nixon (1750-1818)
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John Nixon (1750-1818)

Blarney Castle, Co. Cork

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GBP 1,553

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John Nixon (1750-1818)
Blarney Castle, Co. Cork
signed with a initials 'J.N.' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'Blarney Castle C Cork, 5 Octr, 1792' (lower right)
pencil, grey ink and watercolour, unframed
4½ x 7 in. (11.5 x 17.8 cm.)

with Green's Antiques, Dublin, where purchased by the present owners.

專家說明

The keep, depicted here is the original of the third castle that was built upon this site in 1446 by Dermot MacCarthy, King of Munster.

Legend has it that in gratitude for supplying four thousand men from Munster to aid Robert the Bruce at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314, Cormac McCarthy, King of Munster, was given half of the Stone of Scone. This was subsequently incorporated into the battlements and has come to be known as the Blarney Stone.