Barracks, Dublin

Book Description

London: James Malton, 1795. Colour-printed aquatint with hand finishing. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and minor foxing, mild rippling in the far right side of the sheet, and a few small black spots in the top of the image. Trimmed to platemark on right side. 10 x 17 1/8 inches. 11 3/4 x 18 inches. A fine plate from a second, later edition (circa 1818) of 'Picturesque Views of the City of Dublin', Malton's detailed topographical and architectural survey of Georgian Dublin. Designed by the architect Thomas Burgh (1670-1730), Collins Barracks was erected in 1701. It is one of the earliest public buildings in Dublin and is now part of the National Museum of Ireland. The son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton, James Malton was an engraver and watercolourist, who once taught geometry and perspective and worked as a draughtsman in the office of the celebrated Irish architect James Gandon. He is best known for Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, a highly acclaimed series of twenty-five engravings originally published between 1792-1799. Malton's beautifully coloured prints from this work, which depict many of the impressive new public buildings erected, truly capture the dramatic architectural metamorphosis Dublin underwent in the eighteenth century. His later publications include Four Views in Devon (1800), a small collection of aquatints after F. Keenan, and Essay on British Cottage architecture (1804). Cf. Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860; cf. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, vol. 9, p. 117; cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

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