The illustrious sons of Ireland / painted by J. Donaghy. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The illustrious sons of Ireland / painted by J. Donaghy., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The illustrious sons of Ireland / painted by J. Donaghy.
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Rather than honoring a single hero, this lithograph gathers a whole company of Irish notables under one heading, "The illustrious sons of Ireland," drawn by J. Donaghy and published in New York by Thomas Kelly around 1873. Its listed subjects, statesmen, clergy, authors and military officers, suggest how the publisher wanted the homeland's leading figures to read as a shared source of pride. Prints like this were made for the Irish immigrant community and their American-born children, who hung them in homes as both decoration and a statement of identity. Kelly's shop was one of several that sold such sentimental, patriotic images in the decades after the famine emigration.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Published & printed by Thomas Kelly, 17 Barclay St., c1873. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1870-1880.Group portraits 1870-1880.Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | D10863 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1873 by Th. Kelly in the Office of the Liberarian [sic] of Congress at Washington, D.C. |
| Subjects | Men--Ireland--1870-1880. Statesmen--Ireland--1870-1880. Clergy--Ireland--1870-1880. Authors--Ireland--1870-1880. Military officers--Ireland--1870-1880. Ireland--History. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,232 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152695 |
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