Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, GOUGH STATUE
| Name: | BROCK, THOMAS, (SIR) *# |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, GOUGH STATUE |
| Date: | 1875-1788 |
| Nature: | Statue by Foley finished by Brock, Birch & Dewich |
| Refs: | B 33, 20 Mar 1875, 264; 36, 19 Oct 1878, 1106. |
| Name: | FOLEY, JOHN HENRY * |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, GOUGH STATUE |
| Date: | 1875-80 |
| Nature: | Bronze statue of Hugh, 1st Viscount Gough. Cast from metal of guns taken during Sikh campaign. Finished after Foley's death by Mssrs. Brock, Birch and Dewick. Unveiled 21 Feb 1880. (Blown up in 1956 and 1957, and sold in 1986 to Chillingham Estate, Northumberland.) |
| Refs: |
IB 17, 15 Mar 1875, ?; B 37, 9 Aug 1879, 900; 38, 28 Feb 1880, 264; Architect 13, 13 Mar 1875, 166; B 37, 9 Aug 1879, 900; 38, 28 Feb 1880, 264; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 362; John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 114-115; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 10-11, 115,231-232,238, Figs.7,318. |