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"William Ashford’s Mount Merrion: The Absent Point of View by Finola O’Kane explores a remarkable album of drawings depicting the suburban demesne of Mount Merrion situated a few miles from Dublin. Part of his bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the drawings were commissioned in 1804 by the museum’s founder Viscount Fitzwilliam from his friend the landscape painter William Ashford (1746-1824), later to be the inaugural President of the Royal Hibernian Academy. This study by Finola O’Kane publishing the drawings and a series of related paintings for the first time in their entirety. It moves from an exploration of Mount Merrion’s history, architecture and landscape design to wider questions of the Fitzwilliam family’s medieval ancestry; the substantial reach of their Dublin estate; and their enthusiastic role in Dublin’s eighteenth-century property boom which in effect re-orientated the whole city to the east"--
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Irish Landscape painting, In art, Themes, motives, HistoryTimes
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William Ashford's Mount Merrion: the absent point of view
2012, Churchill House Press
in English
0955024668 9780955024665
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"Mount Merrion near Dublin, seat of Viscount Fitzilliam, in twenty-four views by William Ashford, 1806": p. [38]-96.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-37).
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