Market, Monday Ballinrobe

C.W. Cole.
[graphic] /
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Cole, Charles William., fl. 1880-1905, artist
Summary:People going about their business outside Monahan's Hotel, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland.
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: [November 1880].
Subjects:
Notes:Inscribed in ink m.c. on image: (Background for companion drawing to "Peace" sheets of Ballinrobe.).

Title inscribed in ink l.r. on image.

C.W. Cole spent time in Ireland working as a special artist for the The Graphic reporting on the events relating to the Irish Land League, 1880. At Ballinrobe he covered the so-called Boycott Relief Expedition (12th - 26th November, 1880), in which the army escorted the 50 "Orange Labourers", employed to save Captain Boycott's crops, to and from their camp at Lough Mask.

Image published in slightly altered form as a wood engraving entitled "2. "War:" Market Day at Ballinrobe during the military occupation", as part of a series of illustrations on page 584 and 585, under the title "The Land Agitation in Ireland - Sketches from Ballinrobe and Lough Mask", The Graphic, December 11th, 1880. See also 2196 TX 63 for another similar sketch used for this particular published image.

Physical description: 1 drawing : pen ; image 11.2 x 17.3 cm., pasted on sheet 26.4 x 34.6 cm..

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Credits:Attributed to C.W. Cole, (fl. 1880-1905).
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PD 2002 TX 31
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Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland.