[Powerscourt Waterfall [ink wash]]

Artist(s): Arthur Young (Draughtsman)

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. The illustration is a greyscale ink wash drawing with light blue wash frame.

Image Details

Genre	Landscape
Technique	Wash drawings
Subject(s)	Nature
Geographical Location	Leinster – Province Powerscourt Waterfall – Named locality Wicklow – County
Keyword(s)	Cliffs, Rivers, Trees, Waterfalls
Colour	Monochrome
Dimensions	16.5 cm x 20.8 cm
Published / created	1780
Closely related image	Powerscourt Waterfall – The engraving made by Isaac Taylor from this ink wash by Young.

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account	A Tour in Ireland [Young; copy with unique drawings]
Contributor(s)	Arthur Young — Role: Author of travel text
Print or manuscript	Print
Location of image in copy	opp. p. 92
Source copy	National Library of Ireland LO 10203
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1369822324
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]