Mr Hitchens in pursuit of nuggets

Artist(s): Thomas Colville Scott (Draughtsman)

Portrait of two men in a two-wheeled horse cart.

Inscribed in Image

Caption outside of boundaries of image – Mr Hitchens in pursuit of nuggets

Image Details

Genre	Portrait
Technique	Pencil works
Subject(s)	Transportation
Geographical Location	Connaught – Province Galway – County Kilbrickan – Named locality
Keyword(s)	Carts, Coach drivers, Horses, Passengers
Colour	Coloured
Dimensions	8.5 cm x 7.3 cm
Published / created	1853
Closely related image	Swineford Car – This appears to be a copy of an engraving by Daniel Maclise entitled 'Swineford Car', in John Barrow's A Tour round Ireland (1836).

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account	Ireland: Journal of a visit to Connemara
Contributor(s)	Thomas Colville Scott — Role: Author of travel text
Note	Thomas Colville Scott
Print or manuscript	Manuscript
Location of image in copy	p. 77
Source copy	National Library of Ireland MS 49525
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1364900837
Rights	Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

The Mineral Engineer, who accompanied us today, returned to the ‘Halfway House’, to pursue his researches along the banks of Lough Corrib, as he saw no indications of Minerals here. Not being able to spare our Car, we commended him to the guidance of our talkative and most intelligent landlord, ‘Mr Maude’ and under his auspices, thus started – [pp. 76-77]