Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (ROYAL EXCHANGE LIFE & FIRE ASSURANCE CO.)
Name: | HOGAN, JOHN * |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (ROYAL EXCHANGE LIFE & FIRE ASSURANCE CO.) |
Date: | 1820ca |
Nature: | Wooden statue of Minerva for front of building (now in Crawford Art Gallery, Cork). Presented to Trustees of Crawford School of Art by Gresham Life Assurance Co. when it took over and rebuilt premises of old Royal Exchange Co. in mid 1880s. |
Refs: |
IB 31, 1 Nov 1889, 267; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Newoclassical Sculptor in Rome, (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 175; Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 63-64. |
Name: | BELCHER, SAMUEL |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (ROYAL EXCHANGE LIFE & FIRE ASSURANCE CO.) |
Date: | 1840ca |
Nature: | Works at same. |
Refs: |
Signed drawing in collection of Pat Poland, Cork, 2011, repr. in Pat Poland, For Whom the Bells Tolled - a history of Cork Fire Services 1622-1900 (History Press, 2010), between pp. 160 & 161 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Jan 2011). |