Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, TUCKEY'S BRIDGE, STATUE OF GEORGE II
Name: | NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]* |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, TUCKEY'S BRIDGE, STATUE OF GEORGE II |
Date: | 1759-1761 |
Nature: | Equestrian statue of George II. Erected 7 Jul and unveiled 16 Jul 1761.(Moved to South Mall and taken down, 1862.) |
Refs: |
Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 731,736; Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 22-26 Jan 1760; Complete Irish Traveller (1788), 151; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 484,487; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 241-2. |