A S:W: View of Roscrea Abbey, Co.y Tipperary

AC. delint. 1st April 1790 ; Pinxt. 5th Sep.r 1790
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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Cooper, Austin, 1759-1830, artist
Summary:View of the fifteenth-century Fransciscan friary in the town of Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland, showing the tall tower, supported by an arch and having horizontal string courses above surmounted by battlements. The ivied door and window of the west gable can be seen. Behind the building is a large, two-storey house, and in the distance more houses can be seen
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: 26th August 1787
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Notes:From: Antiquities of Abbeys, Castles & c. & c. in Ireland, Vol. II

Image within ink frame 10.7 x 14.5 cm. Watermark u.l. on sheet is not visible enough to recognise

In Austin Cooper's diary for 2nd May, 1812 (NLI Ms. Acc. 4841, opposite page 19), he says: "The Franciscan Abbey of which I took a drawing in 1792, with the exception of the steeple has since been pulled down, and a popish Chapel within these few years built on the Site, tho' not yet finished withinside". The date 1792 is wrong for this drawing (which is dated 1790), so either the date is mistaken or there was another drawing by Cooper of the same subject now lost

Title inscribed in ink l.c. on sheet under image

Physical description: 1 drawing image 10.5 x 14.3 cm., on sheet 18.2 x 26.7 cm.

Citations/References: An Eighteenth Century Antiquary : The Sketches, Notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper (1759-1830) / Liam Price (ed.). - Dublin, 1942 page 118 with Plate 21

Citations/References: Roscrea and District / George Cunningham. - Roscrea, 1976 page 37

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