[Powerscourt Waterfall]
View of Powerscourt Waterfall. The water falls from the rocks on the top right-hand corner of the image, and descends behind a group of trees in the foreground, on the left. Rocks and vegetation are on either side of the waterfall.
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Image Details
| Genre | Landscape |
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| Technique | Engravings |
| Subject(s) | Nature |
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| Keyword(s) | Cliffs, Rivers, Trees, Waterfalls |
| Colour | Monochrome |
| Dimensions | 15.3 cm x 19.4 cm |
| Published / created | 1780 |
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Bibliographical Details
| Travel Account | A Tour in Ireland [Young] |
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| Location of image in copy | frontispiece |
| Source copy | National Library of Ireland J.9141.YOU/1780 |
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Alternative source
This is a link to a digital copy hosted by an external website. |
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9w095p8n?urlappend=%3Bseq=6 |
| Permalink | https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1369406370 |
| Rights | Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland |
Related text from travel account
| Breakfasted at the inn at Tinnyhinch, and then drove to the park to see the water-fall. The park itself is fine; you enter it between two vast masses of mountain, covered with wood, forming a vale scattered with trees, through which flows a river on a broken rocky channel: you follow this vale till it is lost in a most uncommon manner, the ridges of mountain closing, form one great amphitheatre of wood, from the top of which, at the height of many hundred feet, bursts the water from a rock, and tumbling down the side of a very large one, forms a scene singularly beautiful. At the bottom is a spot of velvet turf, from which rises a clump of oaks, and through their stems, branches, and leaves, the falling water is seen as a back ground with an effect more picturesque than can be well imagined; these few trees, and this little lawn, give the finishing to the scene. The water falls behind some large fragments of rock, and turns to the left, down a stony channel, under the shade of a wood. [p. 92] |