Enniskerry, Wicklow

Artist(s) : Thomas Creswick (Draughtsman), James Tibbitts Willmore (Engraver)

View of Enniskerry, in Co. Wicklow, from the opposite side of the Glencullen River, with the main road leading into the village across a bridge. In the foreground a girl or woman is approaching the viewer with a basket or bucket on her head. There are cows on the bridge, and several figures beyond it, walking along the main street of the village. The Sugarloaf Mountain dominates the background.

Inscribed in Image

Signature – T. Creswick. / J. T. Willmore. / Printed by Alfred Adlard.
Caption outside of boundaries of image – Enniskerry, Wicklow.

Image Details

Genre	Landscape
Technique	Etchings
Subject(s)	Cities and towns, Nature, Rural life
Geographical Location	Enniskerry - Village Wicklow - County Leinster - Province
Keywords(s)	Bridges, Lands, Livestock, Mountains, Peasants, People, Rivers, Women
Colour	Monochrome
Dimensions	11.2 cm x 13.5 cm
Published / created	1837

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account	Ireland Picturesque and Romantic
Contributor(s)	Leitch Ritchie — Role: Author of travel text Thomas Creswick — Role: Draughtsman
Print or manuscript	Print
Location of image in copy	opp. p. 54
Source copy	National Library of Ireland Ir 9141 r 15
Alternative source This is a link to a digital copy hosted by an external website.	http://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002001929075?urlappend=%3Bseq=79
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/?id=ii_image_1368009752&object_type=image&ttce_function=5
Rights	Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

Bray is certainly worth a visit, if only for the sake of Brayhead, otherwise I should have had no occasion to enter the village at all. Before reaching it, or crossing the river which divides the counties of Dublin and Wicklow, the mail-coach road turns off to the right, and conducts the traveller to within a short distance of the village of Enniskerry. This is a neat and finely situated little place. The annexed view is not only poetical, but so correct in the details, that I amused myself by letting some
of the inhabitants point out their own individual // houses. The one in the centre of the piece, at the right hand corner of the bridge, is the hotel, and a very good village hotel it is. The Sugarloaf mountain in the distance dominates the scene. [pp. 54-55]