Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT
Name: | BAKER, HENRY AARON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. |
Refs: | Plan & perspective view exhibited Society of Artists of Ireland 1809, no. 110,111; anon perspective view in IAA (90/67) could be by HAB |
Name: | MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. |
Refs: | A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989),185. (An unsigned perspective of an obelisk to Nelson's memory in a rugged maritime setting, possibly Morrison's design, is in IAA, Acc. 0090/067) |
Name: | JOHNSTON, SAMUEL |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. Design exh.at Society of Artists of Ireland, 1809 (no. 42) |
Refs: | ALEI, I, 364 |
Name: | GWILT, JOSEPH # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. |
Refs: | Design for column exh. RA 1813, no. 841 |
Name: | WARE, SAMUEL # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806 |
Nature: | Exhibits design for 'for a monument to be erected in Ireland, to the memory of the late Lord Nelson' at RA, 1806. |
Refs: | RA 1806, no. 869 |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806;1808-09 |
Nature: | FJ appears to have been a competition entrant and also superintending architect responsible for erection of Wilkins's winning design in a less expensive form. Opened 21 Oct 1809. Destroyed 1966. |
Refs: | Unsigned undated ?competition design in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 204,205; also profile and elevation of capital for pillar, s. & d. 28 Oct 1808, Murray Collection, no. 206 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp.212-213); an unsigned elevation (contract drawing) of pillar, with not in margin 'Estimate £4,503. F.J. January 1808' was sold in Kilmore House sale, June 1920 (discussed in IB 72, ? ? 1030, 508(illus.) and IB 88, 28 Dec 1946, 856; this seems to be the drawing described in Irish Architectural Drawings (1965), p.8, no. 19.); note by A.E. Richardson in IB 65, 28 Feb 1923, 583-4; RIA pamphlet 991/5 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Patrick Henchy, 'Nelson's Pillar', Dublin Historical Record 10, No. 2 (Jun-Aug 1948), 57-58; H. Potterton, 'Dublin's vanishing Monuments', Country Life155, 23 May 1974, 1304 |
Name: | WILKINS, WILLIAM # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1806;1808-09809 |
Nature: | WW winner of competition (held in 1807?) with design for Greek Doric column topped by a Roman galley. Monument erected in modified (less expensive) form with statue of Nelson replacing galley under supervision of Francis Johnston. FS laid 15 Feb 1808. Built by Thomas Baker and Robert McCartney, stonecutter.. Opened 21 Oct 1809. (Blown up by IRA and demolished, 1966.) |
Refs: | RA 1809, No. 874; Patrick Henchy, 'Nelson's Pillar', Dublin Historical Record 10, No. 2 (Jun-Aug 1948), 53-63; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 17,238-240,Figs.13,319; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 213. |
Name: | BAKER, THOMAS [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1808-09 |
Nature: | Design by William Wilkins executed in modified form by Thomas Baker and Robert McCartney under supervision of Francis Johnston. |
Refs: | Patrick Henchy, 'Nelson's Pillar', Dublin Historical Record 10, No. 2 (Jun-Aug 1948), 59 |
Name: | MCCARTNEY, ROBERT * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1808-09 |
Nature: | Design by William Wilkins executed in modified form by Thomas Baker and Robert McCartney under supervision of Francis Johnston. |
Refs: | Patrick Henchy, 'Nelson's Pillar', Dublin Historical Record 10, No. 2 (Jun-Aug 1948), 59 |
Name: | KIRK, THOMAS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1808ca |
Nature: | Statue of Nelson on top of pillar. |
Refs: |
W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 590; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 13-14. |
Name: | SYMES, SANDHAM |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1868 |
Nature: | Repairs and repointing. Contractor: John Nolan. |
Refs: | IB 10, 1 Nov 1868, 267 |
Name: | BEATER, GEORGE PALMER |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NELSON MONUMENT |
Date: | 1894 |
Nature: | New entrance porch. Contr: E.Moloney |
Refs: | IB 36, 15 Apr 1894, 89; Patrick Henchy, 'Nelson's Pillar', Dublin Historical Record 10, No. 2 (Jun-Aug 1948), 57 |