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Nathaniel Hone RHA (1831-1917)
Sand Dunes and Strip of Blue Sea, Warm Clouds
Watercolour, 12.5 x 21.5cm (5 x 8½”)
Provenance:TheDawson Gallery Dublin
Literature: “Four Irish Landscapes Painters”, Professor Bodkin, No.475
in appendix
€300 - 500
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Sir Frederick William Burton RHA RWS (1816-1900)
Act IV, Sc.1 from Byron’s ‘The Two Foscari’
Watercolour, 67 x 82cm (26¼ x 32¼”)
Signed and dated 1838
Provenance:ThomasPhilip, Earl de Grey, bought from the Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibition, 1838, 45 gns.
Exhibited: Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1838, No.180
Literature: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, vol.1, Shannon, 1969, p.136
The present watercolour depicts a scene from Byron’s celebrated work of 1821, which was subsequently produced by Verdi as
I Due Forcari
. Jacopo
Foscari, illegally returning to Venice from exile, awaits the decision of the Council of Ten on his fate. His wife pleads with the old Doge, learning,
however, that the Council has decreed exile.The Doge himself is divided between public duty and family loyalty. His father, the Doge, comes to bid
him farewell and Jacopo Loredano, an enemy of the Foscari, comes to lead Jacopo before the Council, which condemns him. At carnival time Jacopo
is taken to the barge that will carry him to exile. Another confesses to the murder of which Jacopo was accused, but, as his wife tells her father-in-law,
the confession is too late, since Jacopo is now dead.The old man is forced by Loredano to resign his power, to be replaced as Doge.
In the scene depicted Marina says to the Doge, ‘You feel it then at last - you! Where is now the Stoic of the State?’The Doge, throwing himself down
by his son’s body, replies ‘Here!...’
The Earl de Grey was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1841-1844.
€2,000 - 4,000
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Nathaniel Hone RHA (1831-1917)
Sloping Pastures and Big Trees
Watercolour, 12 x 17cm (4¾ x 6¾”)
Provenance:TheDawson Gallery Dublin
Literature: “Four Irish Landscapes Painters”, Professor Bodkin,
No.803 in appendix
€300 - 500