drawing
- Museum number
- 1868,1114.505
- Description
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The New Post Office, Sackville Street, Dublin; with colonnaded entrance, surmounted by three statues, seen from the front, carriages, carts, and pedestrians walking along the street. 1818
Pen and black ink, with watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1818
- Dimensions
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Height: 295 millimetres
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Width: 523 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The General Post Office building in Dublin opened in January 1818, the year this drawing is dated. Another view of the building by Brocas, with different carriages and with Nelson's pillar (erected 1809 and destroyed 1966) to the right, was sold at Christie's 3 July 2018/127. It was a similar size (372 x 562), not as faded, and signed and dated 'S F BROCAS delt. Dublin.1818'. The latter was made to be etched by his brother, Henry Brocas Jr, as part of a series of coloured etchings depicting the topography of Ireland; the series was never completed but there were 10 engravings published individually between 1820 and c. 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,1114.505