[Tork Mountain across the Upper Lake]

Artist(s): Arthur Young (Draughtsman)

Tork Mountain seen across the Upper Lake of Killarney. A small bay is formed by a steep rocky hill on the right, and a rocky promontory on the left. A small opening is left between them; beyond another portion of the lake is visible, directly below the mountain. In the foreground, two figures are on a boat, one facing the viewer, rowing, and the other facing the opposite direction, looking at what is probably a map. The illustration is a greyscale ink wash drawing with a light blue wash frame.

Inscribed in Image

Instructions to binder – 293

Image Details

Genre	Landscape
Technique	Wash drawings
Subject(s)	Nature, Transportation
Geographical Location	Kerry – County Munster – Province Upper Lake of Killarney – Lake
Keyword(s)	Hats, Lakes & ponds, Mountains, Passengers, People
Colour	Monochrome
Dimensions	19.6 cm x 22.4 cm
Published / created	1780

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. 293
Source copy	National Library of Ireland LO 10203
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1369924474
Rights	Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

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]