MASK OF THE BOYNE Rory Breslin (b.1963)
Signature: Medium: bronze; (no. 1 from an edition of 3) Dimensions: 35 x 16in. (88.90 x 40.64cm) Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: The Mask of the Boyne is a larger than life-size bronze interpretation of Edward Smyth's River God keystone on the South facade of Dublin's Custom House. The face is fine and perhaps expresses a pens... sive and perhaps worried countenance. The head is crowned by leaves of laurel intermixed with ears of wheat. Notable for cattle today, it would appear that the banks of the Boyne in Meath were abundant in grain in the eighteenth century. The presentation of the beard is redolent of the meandering of the Boyne as it winds its way in a north easterly direction for seventy miles through counties Offaly, Meath and Louth before entering the Irish Sea below the historic town of Drogheda. In 1773, on the recommendation of the right Hon. John Beresford, Chief Commissioner of Revenue, it was decided that a new Custom House be built on the site of what was then called the North Lots. Designed by James Gandon it was completed in 1791 at a cost of nearly half a million pounds. Gandon engaged Smith, to executed the various decorations in the frieze and in the interior of the building, and the fourteen heads symbolical of the principal Rivers of Ireland, on the keystones of the arches. Impressed by Smiths depictions of the river heads, Gandon says that they...."are executed by Mr. E. Smith a native of Ireland, a gentleman who, without having had the advantage of foreign travel or opportunity of seeing many specimens of sculpture, has given proof of abilities equal to any in the Three Kingdoms." The Custom House was the first major public building built in Dublin as an isolated structure with four monumental façades. It is often considered architecturally the most important building in Dublin and is sited on the riverfront with Beresford Place to the rear. The site chosen for the new Custom House met with much opposition from city merchants at the time, who feared that its move down river from its original site at Essex Quay would lessen the value of their properties while making the property owners down river wealthier. more
MASK OF THE BOYNE Rory Breslin (b.1963)
Signature: Medium: bronze; (no. 1 from an edition of 3) Dimensions: 35 x 16in. (88.90 x 40.64cm) Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: The Mask of the Boyne is a larger than life-size bronze interpretation of Edward Smyth's River God keystone on the South facade of Dublin's Custom House. The face is fine and perhaps expresses a pens... sive and perhaps worried countenance. The head is crowned by leaves of laurel intermixed with ears of wheat. Notable for cattle today, it would appear that the banks of the Boyne in Meath were abundant in grain in the eighteenth century. The presentation of the beard is redolent of the meandering of the Boyne as it winds its way in a north easterly direction for seventy miles through counties Offaly, Meath and Louth before entering the Irish Sea below the historic town of Drogheda. In 1773, on the recommendation of the right Hon. John Beresford, Chief Commissioner of Revenue, it was decided that a new Custom House be built on the site of what was then called the North Lots. Designed by James Gandon it was completed in 1791 at a cost of nearly half a million pounds. Gandon engaged Smith, to executed the various decorations in the frieze and in the interior of the building, and the fourteen heads symbolical of the principal Rivers of Ireland, on the keystones of the arches. Impressed by Smiths depictions of the river heads, Gandon says that they...."are executed by Mr. E. Smith a native of Ireland, a gentleman who, without having had the advantage of foreign travel or opportunity of seeing many specimens of sculpture, has given proof of abilities equal to any in the Three Kingdoms." The Custom House was the first major public building built in Dublin as an isolated structure with four monumental façades. It is often considered architecturally the most important building in Dublin and is sited on the riverfront with Beresford Place to the rear. The site chosen for the new Custom House met with much opposition from city merchants at the time, who feared that its move down river from its original site at Essex Quay would lessen the value of their properties while making the property owners down river wealthier. more
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