http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/09/30/the-doyle-brothers/ Blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/09/30/the-doyle-brothers/#comment-676 Bean an Phoist Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:02:19 +0000 http://www.nli.ie/blog/?p=1798#comment-676 Hi Aaron! I work in the Prints and Drawings Department. Many thanks for sending us this information. It is most interesting to know the whereabouts of some of Henry Doyle’s original sketches, including some of the images in our album. The images in our album are early photographic reproductions of his portrait sketches. There is a label on the inside of our album which states: Pen-and-ink sketches by Henry Doyle R.A. when on a visit to D.F.M.C. at Blessington Street, Dublin, Febr. 1852, (pp.1-14) (photographed by J.M.C.) D.F.M.C. is Denis Florence MacCarthy (of whom there are two portraits by Doyle in the album). His papers are in the <a href="http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.sc.maccarthydenis.xml" rel="nofollow">University of Kansas</a> The photographs are by J.M.C., John McCarthy. Denis had a son called John. It would appear that these Henry Doyle sketches were in the possession of Denis Florence MacCarthy in February 1852, and that some were still in his possession in 1878, as your sketches are housed with a letter from Denis to his son of that date. We will add a note to our <a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000246911" rel="nofollow">catalogue record</a> about the original sketches held in Carbondale. Hi Aaron! I work in the Prints and Drawings Department. Many thanks for sending us this information. It is most interesting to know the whereabouts of some of Henry Doyle’s original sketches, including some of the images in our album.
The images in our album are early photographic reproductions of his portrait sketches. There is a label on the inside of our album which states: Pen-and-ink sketches by Henry Doyle R.A. when on a visit to D.F.M.C. at Blessington Street, Dublin, Febr. 1852, (pp.1-14) (photographed by J.M.C.)
D.F.M.C. is Denis Florence MacCarthy (of whom there are two portraits by Doyle in the album). His papers are in the University of Kansas
The photographs are by J.M.C., John McCarthy. Denis had a son called John.
It would appear that these Henry Doyle sketches were in the possession of Denis Florence MacCarthy in February 1852, and that some were still in his possession in 1878, as your sketches are housed with a letter from Denis to his son of that date.
We will add a note to our catalogue record about the original sketches held in Carbondale.

]]> http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/09/30/the-doyle-brothers/#comment-658 Bean an Phoist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:26:22 +0000 http://www.nli.ie/blog/?p=1798#comment-658 Thank you, Aaron. Very interesting, but beyond my own area of expertise, so I'm passing on to our Prints and Drawings Department... Thank you, Aaron. Very interesting, but beyond my own area of expertise, so I’m passing on to our Prints and Drawings Department…

]]> http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/09/30/the-doyle-brothers/#comment-616 Aaron Lisec Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:01:57 +0000 http://www.nli.ie/blog/?p=1798#comment-616 I work in the archives at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. We hold a small collection of Henry Doyle's sketches that include some of the images I see here, like Dickens and his wife, and Gavazzi, and George Petrie. There are slight differences in shading that could be attributed to how they were reproduced. Our sketches appear to be originals, pen and ink on loose scraps of paper. The sketches are housed with an 1878 letter from Denis Florence MacCarthy to his son Florence, but I find nothing in the letter to explain the connection. I work in the archives at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. We hold a small collection of Henry Doyle’s sketches that include some of the images I see here, like Dickens and his wife, and Gavazzi, and George Petrie. There are slight differences in shading that could be attributed to how they were reproduced. Our sketches appear to be originals, pen and ink on loose scraps of paper. The sketches are housed with an 1878 letter from Denis Florence MacCarthy to his son Florence, but I find nothing in the letter to explain the connection.

]]> http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2011/09/30/the-doyle-brothers/#comment-268 No True Scotsman | Sibling of Daedalus Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:02:02 +0000 http://www.nli.ie/blog/?p=1798#comment-268 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]>