Dublin Bay from Malahide Hill

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

Irish Sea, Dublin Bay, Ireland, Wicklow Mountains, County Wicklow, Dublin

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, townscape/cityscape, horse, hill, bay, man, road, house, chimney, thatched roof

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Andrew Nicholl (1804 - 1886)

Title

Dublin Bay from Malahide Hill

Date

1850

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 38.00 cm, width: 53.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, March 1971

Inscription

Sdbl Insverso

GAC number

9160