View of Dublin from Islandbridge

? Samuel Frederick Brocas , Irish, c.1792-1847

Title

Datec.1810

MediumGraphite, grey wash with white highlights on paper

Dimensions

10.2 x 16.9 cm

Credit LinePresented, 2019

Object numberNGI.2019.217

DescriptionThis highly detailed small-scale drawing is thought to possibly be by Samuel Brocas. It is smaller in scale than his two Dublin watercolours in the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection, thus its shows a different angle of his work.

In addition to his Dublin pictures, Samuel Brocas also excelled at animal art, rural scenes and commercial illustrations for magazines, periodicals and publishers of the time. The two watercolour views of Dublin by Samuel Brocas in the collection are: 'View of Dublin from near the Four Courts', 1818 (NGI.2440), and a 'View of Trinity College and College Green', 1818 (NGI.2558).

Inscriptionon verso (in graphite): c.1810 William Sadler b.1782 - 1839, Dublin
ProvenancePurchased by previous owner in 1967; presented, 2019