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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Antique Prints :: Architectural :: F.O. Morris - Architectural Landscape Picturesque Seats :: Powerscourt Mansion, IRELAND Wicklow

Powerscourt Mansion, IRELAND Wicklow

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This attractive colour plate is one of a Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britian and Ireland as presented by F. O. Morris.

A greater proportion of the drawings were by Alexander F. Lydon, and printed from coloured wood-blocks using the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett.

Published by William Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin.

Condition: EXCELLENT CONDITION. The colors are rich and bright and the image shows elaborate detail and is in Excellent Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed on heavy quality paper.

Excerpt from the old descriptive: POWERSCOURT, NEAR ENNISKERRY, COUNTY OF WICKLOW - VISCOUNT POWERSCOURT.
Powerscourt, distant from Bray about four miles, is approached by a handsome arched gateway of granite, and an avenue of beech trees about a mile long, over-looking the valley of the River Dargle, the name of which is a corruption of the Celtic "Dah-glen," the "Valley of the Oaks," from the ancient forest, the remains of which still exist in the deer park. - The house, built of granite about 1730, presents a Grecian facade to the north or entrance front, with a central block and wings, terminated by gateways and obelisks surmounted by eagles. The south front overlooks the terraces and the view across the valley to the "Great Sugar-loaf," called in Irish "The Silver Spear," a conical mountain somewhat resembling Vesuvius in form, one thousand six hundred and fifty feet above the sea, the cone of which is of granite, piercing through the overlying strata of clay-state.

A copy of the circa 1870s descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history and some genealogy information will be included with the print.

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SKU	070118k2
Quantity in stock	1 item(s) available
Weight	2.00 0
Price:	US$18.00

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