Browsing by Subject "Eighteenth century"
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The Dublin Group: Irish mezzotint printmakers and the Dublin print trade c. 1740 to 1750
(2015-05-25)This thesis explores the unique cultural and historical conditions leading to mezzotint portrait reproduction in Dublin during the 1740s. Arguably, the experiences and activity of the Dublin Group at Cork Hill facilitated ... -
Patrons, Peers and Subscribers: The Publication of Mary Barber's Poems on Several Occasions (1734)
(2013-09-30)Mary Barber's volume Poems on Several Occasions (1734) was one of the first collections of poetry written by a woman to be published by subscription. The subscription list to this volume, which comprised 918 names -- ... -
The utopics of improvement in eighteenth-century visual representations of Irish demesnes
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-03)Eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish society has been characterised as having a utopian structure of feeling, a common set of perceptions and values that grew out of the intellectual and pragmatic activities associated with ...