Door, Window & Console in the Abbey of Ballintober, Co.y Mayo
G.B: ; A.C. Oct. 1799.
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| Summary: | Drawing of the pillars and part of the arch of the Chapter house doorway of Ballintober (or Ballintubber) Abbey, County Mayo, Ireland, beside which is a "plan of the door". Furthermore there is a drawing of "Console treble shafts supporting the groins" and another of the northernmost of the three windows in the east gable. |
| Format: | Prints & Drawings |
| Language: | English |
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October 1799.
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| Notes: | Attributed to Austin Cooper (1759-1830) after an original by Gabriel Beranger (1729-1817). The original drawing has not survived. Inscribed in ink on various parts of the drawing: Plan of the Door ; Console treble Shafts supporting the groins ; plan of the Windows. Scale of feet inscribed in ink u.r. Title inscribed in ink l.c. on image. Towards the end of 1799, Austin Cooper copied a number of drawings made twenty years earlier by Gabriel Beranger (ca. 1730-1817) during a tour of Connacht, commissioned by Col. William Burton Conyngham (1733-1796), from whose nephew Cooper probably bought the original Beranger drawings. Physical description: 1 drawing : pen & wash ; image 20.3 x 32.4 cm., pasted onto sheet 20.5 x 29.2 cm. more |
