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‘A View of the Black Rocks, and of the Mountains on the South Side of the Harbour of Dublin’
Engraving, 28.9 x 47.9cm
Among ‘the earliest of engraved Irish landscapes’ (Strickland, 1, p. 580), this ‘View of the Black Rocks’ in- cluding an expansive panorama of the terrain and settlements of south County Dublin is one of a set of four engraved by Giles King after images by William Jones. The others show Howth, the Salmon Leap at Leixlip and Powerscourt Waterfall. Jones was also a portrait painter and in 1745 King engraved his por- trait of Thomas Carter, Master of the Rolls. He also painted the apothecary and municipal radical Charles Lucas. He died in 1747 and in February that year Samuel Dixon advertised that he had for sale in his shop on Capel Street ‘several paintings, both landscape and history, done by the later ingenious Mr Jones’.
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‘A View of the Black Rocks, and of the Mountains on the South Side of the Harbour of Dublin’
Engraving, 28.9 x 47.9cm
Among ‘the earliest of engraved Irish landscapes’ (Strickland, 1, p. 580), this ‘View of the Black Rocks’ in- cluding an expansive panorama of the terrain and settlements of south County Dublin is one of a set of four engraved by Giles King after images by William Jones. The others show Howth, the Salmon Leap at Leixlip and Powerscourt Waterfall. Jones was also a portrait painter and in 1745 King engraved his por- trait of Thomas Carter, Master of the Rolls. He also painted the apothecary and municipal radical Charles Lucas. He died in 1747 and in February that year Samuel Dixon advertised that he had for sale in his shop on Capel Street ‘several paintings, both landscape and history, done by the later ingenious Mr Jones’.