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Great Irish Households

Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century
Buch | Hardcover
436 Seiten
2022
John Adamson (Verlag)
978-1-898565-17-8 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
Inventories of fourteen great Irish country houses, three Dublin town houses and one London town house yield remarkable insights into the lifestyle of leading families across Ireland and the households that supported them. They record in detail the goods and chattels inherited, accumulated, or acquired for enjoyment or everyday use.
The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions. That was not always so. The inventory for Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, for example, was drawn up to make a claim following the house's devastation in the 1798 uprising. Mostly hitherto unpublished, the inventories chosen give new-found insights into the lifestyle and taste of some of the foremost families of the day. Above stairs, the inventories show the evolving collecting habits and tastes of eighteenth-century patrons across Ireland and how the interiors of great town and country houses were arranged or responded to new materials and new ideas. The meticulous recording of the contents of the kitchen and scullery likewise sheds light on life below stairs. Itemized equipment required for the brewhouse, dairy, stables, garden and farmyard reflects the at times significant scale of the communities the houses supported and the remarkable degree of self-sufficiency at some of the demesnes. A comprehensive index facilitates access to the myriad items forming the inventories, while the books listed at three of the houses are tentatively identified in separate appendices. A foreword together with short preambles to the inventories set the households in their historical context. Illustrated with contemporary engravings of the houses and with portraits of the owners of the time, the inventories will appeal to country-house visitors, historians of interiors, patronage, collecting and material culture as well as to scholars, curators, collectors, creative designers, film directors, bibliographers, lexicographers and novelists. The eighteenth century is the period onto which the Knight of Glin directed his penetrating gaze as art historian. The book is dedicated to his memory.

Tessa Murdoch, FSA, is an independent scholar. After forty years as curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Museum of London she is working with the British Museum on a programme for Britain and Ireland to mark the bicentenary of Catholic Emancipation in 2029. Her work on Huguenot refugee art and culture, Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, was published in 2021. Her engagement with inventories was inspired by researching the archives of the dukes of Montagu for Boughton House: The English Versailles (1992); and under her editorship Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses was published in 2006; Toby Barnard, FBA, is emeritus fellow in history at Hertford College, University of Oxford. A specialist in the political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c. 1600-1800, his books include: Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 (2004); and Guide to the Sources for the History of Material Culture in Ireland (2005).

Acknowledgements by Tessa Murdoch; Preface by Leslie Fitzpatrick; Foreword by Toby Barnard; The inventories: 1. Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, 1702/3; 2. The Ormonde inventories: Kilkenny Castle, Co. Kilkenny,1705; 3. The Ormonde inventories: Dublin Castle, 1707; 4. The Ormonde inventories: Ormonde House, London, c. 1710; 5. Bishop's mansion house, Elphin, Co. Roscommon, 1740; 6. Captain Balfour's town house, auction sale, Dublin, 1741/2; 7. Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down, 1746 and 1777; 8. Kilrush House, Freshford, Co. Kilkenny, 1750; 9. No. 10 Henrietta Street, Dublin (Luke Gardiner's house), 1772; 10. Morristown Lattin, Co. Kildare, 1773; 11. Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone, 1782; 12. Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, 1798; 13. Killadoon, Co. Kildare, 1807-29; 14. Shelton Abbey, near Arklow, Co. Wicklow, 1816; 15, Borris House, Co. Carlow, 1818; 16. Carton House, Co. Kildare, 1818; 17. Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, 1821; 18. Mount Stewart, Co. Down, 1821; Glossary; Appendix I: Buyers at Captain Balfour's town house sale 1741/2; Appendix II: Books in the second Duchess of Ormonde's closet at Kilkenny Castle, 1705; Appendix III: Index by author of books in the study at the bishop's mansion house, Elphin, County Roscommon, 1740; Appendix IV: Index by author of books listed at Newbridge House, County Dublin, 1821; List of inventory sources; List of plates; Bibliography; Index of personal names; General index

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor John Adamson, Rebecca Campion
Mitarbeit Berater: Tessa Murdoch
Index von: John Adamson
Vorwort Toby Barnard
Zusatzinfo 40 illustrations, 18 in colour; 40 illustrations, 18 in colour
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 206 x 273 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-898565-17-1 / 1898565171
ISBN-13 978-1-898565-17-8 / 9781898565178
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