Painting, Trompe-l oeil of a Letter-rack

Description

A painting using a trompe-l oeil effect, showing a wooden background with two bands across its width. Tucked into these bands are beads, a cameo, a scarf, a peacock feather and a quill. In the centre there is a small painting of a man with a gun and a dog.

Object data

Accession number

HCP 006

Dimensions (cm)

Provenance

File of material relating to a trompe l oeil painting. Includes photocopy of object description sheet which includes sketch of object (date unspecified). Notes that it probably dates from nineteenth-century Ireland. Photocopy of photograph of object on verso; photocopy of extract from '1986 Recent Acquisitions' published by Rafael Valls Fine Paintings, Ryder Street, London, which comprises image and description of a trompe l oeil painting by Evert Collier. File also includes material relating to the fact that an envelope depicted as part of the painting is addressed to 'Mrs. Grady at Elton'. Includes letter (16 June 1999) from Father Mark Tierney, Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, county Limerick, to Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin (address withheld), responding to his request for information about Standish Grady of Cappercullen, county Limerick. His family were owned Elton in east Limerick and were living in Cappercullen (now Glenstal) in 1759. Encloses genealogy of the Grady family and incomplete photocopy of a lease dated 17 August 1759 between George Evans, Lord Carbery, and Grady, Elton, county Limerick. Lord Carbery leases to Grady the deer park of Cappercullen and lands of Murroe and Cappananagh, as well as the custom of the fairs at Murroe, all county Limerick; copy of reply (29 June 1999) from the Knight of Glin to Father Tierney, thanking him for information. Supposes that the subject of the painting is one of the wives of Standish Grady of Elton and Gormanstown, whose sister-in-law married Lord Ilchester.

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