CATCHING THE TRAM IN NASSAU STREET, DUBLIN Rose Mary Barton RWS (1856-1929)
Signature: signed lower left Medium: watercolour heightened with bodycolout Dimensions: 29 by 18cm., 11.2 5 by 7.25in. Provenance: Christies, Dublin, 24 October 1988, lot 53; Whence purchased by the present owner In this evocative street scene Barton depicts Finn’s Hotel in the foreground at right, with the railings of Trinity College beyond and the spire of St Andrew’s church on Suffolk Street visible in the ... distance. Comparable views, taken further along Nassau Street, include Kildare Street Club and Nassau Street, illustrated in Frances Gerard’s Picturesque Dublin (1898, p. 227), another view exhibited at the Crawford Gallery in 1987 (loaned by Major Victor McCalmont) and one sold through Adam’s, 6 December 1979 (lot 8), which depicted a woman in a pony trap near the corner of Kildare Street, and which was featured on the front cover of Raymond Brooke’s A Brimming River more
CATCHING THE TRAM IN NASSAU STREET, DUBLIN Rose Mary Barton RWS (1856-1929)
Signature: signed lower left Medium: watercolour heightened with bodycolout Dimensions: 29 by 18cm., 11.2 5 by 7.25in. Provenance: Christies, Dublin, 24 October 1988, lot 53; Whence purchased by the present owner In this evocative street scene Barton depicts Finn’s Hotel in the foreground at right, with the railings of Trinity College beyond and the spire of St Andrew’s church on Suffolk Street visible in the ... distance. Comparable views, taken further along Nassau Street, include Kildare Street Club and Nassau Street, illustrated in Frances Gerard’s Picturesque Dublin (1898, p. 227), another view exhibited at the Crawford Gallery in 1987 (loaned by Major Victor McCalmont) and one sold through Adam’s, 6 December 1979 (lot 8), which depicted a woman in a pony trap near the corner of Kildare Street, and which was featured on the front cover of Raymond Brooke’s A Brimming River more
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