[Tork Mountain across the Upper Lake, with islands]
Tork Mountain seen across the Upper Lake of Killarney. Six bushy islands emerge from the surface of the lake. The illustration is a greyscale ink wash drawing with a light blue wash frame.
Inscribed in Image
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Image Details
| Genre | Landscape |
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| Technique | Wash drawings |
| Subject(s) | Nature |
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| Keyword(s) | Islands, Lakes & ponds, Mountains |
| Colour | Monochrome |
| Dimensions | 18.5 cm x 22.1 cm |
| Published / created | 1780 |
Bibliographical Details
| Travel Account | A Tour in Ireland [Young; copy with unique drawings] |
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| Location of image in copy | opp. p. 293 |
| Source copy | National Library of Ireland LO 10203 |
| Permalink | https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1369924163 |
Related text from travel account
| Coleman's Eye, a narrow pass, opens a different scenery. Came to a region in which the beautiful and the great are mixed without offence. The islands are most of them thickly wooded; Oak isle in particular rises on a pretty base, and is a most beautiful object: Mac Gilly Cuddy's reeks, with their broken points; Baum, with his perfect cone; the Purple mountain, with his broad and more regular head; and Turk, having assumed a new and more interesting aspect, unite with the opposite hills, part of which have some wood left on them, to form a scene uncommonly sinking. Here you look back on a very peculiar spot; it is a parcel of rocks which cross the lake, and form a gap that opens to distant water, the whole backed by Turk, in a stile of the highest grandeur. [p. 293] |