The Conduit

Artist(s): Thomas Dineley (Draughtsman)

Depiction of an octagonal pillar, surmounted by a globe, erected at the communal conduit in the Cornmarket, Dublin.

Inscribed in Image

  • Caption within boundaries of image – The Conduit
  • Text within boundaries of image – ISLM

Image Details

Genre Scientific or Technical illustration
Technique Pen and ink drawings
Subject(s) Architecture
Geographical Location
  • Conduit, Cornmarket – Named locality
  • Dublin – County
  • Dublin – Town or city
  • Leinster – Province
Keyword(s) Columns, Monuments & memorials, Sculpture
Colour Handcoloured
Dimensions 4.2 cm x 12.1 cm
Published / created 1681

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account Observations in a Voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland
Contributor(s)
Print or manuscript Manuscript
Location of image in copy p. 56
Source copy National Library of Ireland MS 392
Permalink https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1373025647
Rights Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

In the Corne market is seen a Conduit of marble with a globick Dyall for the sun, with the Armes of Dublin and this Inscricon thereon in an escutcheon with Letter of Gold<br><br>The Armes<br>IOHN SMITH<br>LORD<br>MAYOR MDCLXXVIII [p. 56]
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