On offer: an original (i.e. not a later reproduction) scarce antique print "Devinish Isle. Fermanagh.", Ulster, Ireland.
DATE PRINTED: 1830
SIZE: The printed area including titles is approximately 22.5 x 17.5 cm, 8.75 x 7 inches (medium) plus margins with a blank back.
ARTIST/CARTOGRAPHER/ENGRAVER: Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding from a sketch by Robert O'Callaghan Newenham (1770-1849). James Duffield Harding (1798 – 4 December 1863), was an English landscape painter, lithographer and author of drawing manuals. His use of tinted papers and opaque paints in watercolour proved influential. From an early on in his career Harding was a successful and popular teacher. When lithography became popular in Britain, he quickly adopted it as a means of reproducing good examples for the use of pupils and students. H Printed at C. Hullmandel’s Lithographic Establishment. Robert O'Callaghan Newenham, who was born in 1770, was the thirteenth child of Sir Edward Newenham, of Belcamp, Co. Dublin. He became an architect and property developer in Limerick, where he was responsible for the development of the Crescent, Richmond Place, and the adjoining Newenham Street. In 1805 he was appointed an Inspector General of Barracks in Ireland, a post which he held until it was abolished in 1830. On his tours of inspection he made drawings of antiquities, buildings and scenery, some of which were lithographed by J.D. Harding and published in numbers of eight views each in 1826. They were republished as two volumes in 1830 under the title Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland. Newenham showed two views at the exhibition of the Cork Society for Promoting the Fine Arts in 1816 and a further four (including an 'architectural view') at the Mechanics' Institute Exhibition in Cork in 1828.
PROVENANCE: This print was published in "Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland. Drawn on Stone by James D. Harding, From the Sketches of Robert O'Callaghan Newenham, Esq." Published by London, Thomas and William Boone, 1830
TYPE: Antique lithograph printed on paper.
VERSO: There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is blank.
CONDITION: Good; suitable for framing. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Virtually all antiquarian maps and prints are subject to some normal aging due to use and time which is not significant unless otherwise stated. I offer a no questions asked return policy. A few age spots, mostly in the margins.
AUTHENTICITY: This is an authentic antique print, published at the date stated above. I do not offer reproductions. It is not a modern copy. The term 'original' when applied to a print means that it was printed at the first or original date of publication; it does not imply that the item is unique.
RETURNS POLICY: I offer a no questions returns policy. All I ask is that you pay return shipping and mail back to me in original condition.
POSTAGE / SHIPPING COSTS: I only charge postage for the first print ordered. There is no additional postage charge if you order more than one print.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Devenish or Devinish (from Irish: Daimhinis, meaning "ox island") is an island in Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Aligned roughly north–south, it is about one and a quarter miles long and two-thirds of a mile wide. The main place to catch a ferry to the island is at Trory Point, just outside Enniskillen. Devenish contains one of the finest monastic sites in Northern Ireland. A round tower thought to date from the twelfth century is situated on the island, as are the walls of the Oratory of Saint Molaise who established the monastery in the 6th century, on a pilgrim route to Croagh Patrick in County Mayo. It became a centre of scholarship and although raided by Vikings in 837 and burned in 1157, it later flourished as the site of the parish church and St Mary's Augustinian Priory.
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