Queen’s Bridge, 1858 James Howard Burgess painted a number of Belfast landscapes. This oil painting shows the activity on the Lagan in the mid 19th century.
Belfast Harbour Ferry Steps The increase in goods and passenger traffic contributed to the growth of Belfast in the first half of the 19th century. This type of ...
Belfast Water-Cart This interesting watercolour has an unusual subject. It is a water-cart used to distribute water in Belfast.
Church Interior This is the interior of St. Mary’s Dominican Church in Cork which was designed in 1832. The intricate detail, particularly in the ...
Queen’s College, Belfast The main building at Queen’s was designed by Sir Charles Lanyon and copied the style of some famous Oxford Colleges which had been ...
The Kelp Gatherers This Connemara scene was painted in the 1830s by Samuel Lover. It shows coastal dwellers gathering kelp or seaweed against the rugged ...
Potatoes for sale Sampson Towgood Roche painted watercolours of rural scenes in the late 1820s and 1830s. Here potatoes are being sold.
Spalpeens In this work Roche chooses 3 spalpeens as his subject. They were a common sight at hiring fairs all over west Ulster.
