Gap of Dunloe, Kerry

Location

Country: Ireland
City: Dublin
Place: British Embassy

Andrew Nicholl was born in Belfast, the son of a shoemaker. At 18, he was apprenticed to journalist Francis Dalzell Finlay. In 1828, he made 101 watercolours of the Antrim coast. He moved to London in 1830, regularly returning to Ireland. Nicholl travelled to Ceylon in 1846 to teach at Colombo Academy. While there, Colonial Secretary Emerson Tennent commissioned him to illustrate his book ‘Ceylon’ (1859). They travelled to Kandy together in 1848 and Nicholl described the trip in an article in ‘Dublin University Magazine’ (1852). Several Ceylon drawings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 and Queen Victoria purchased two in 1870. Nicholl also presented a volume of them to the British Museum in 1883. He died in Camberwell, aged 82.

Places

Ireland, MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Gap of Dunloe, Auger Lake, County Kerry

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, horse, lake, mountain, stone/rock, boy, woman, basket

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Andrew Nicholl (1804 - 1886)

Title

Gap of Dunloe, Kerry

Date

c.1850-1859

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 32.80 cm, width: 56.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1967

Inscription

bl: A Nicholl. A.R HA ; verso: Gap of Dunmow

GAC number

7580