Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 4 DECEMBER 2024

110 51 ANDREW NICHOLL RHA (1804 - 1886) The Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta Pencil, pen, brown ink and water- colour, heightened with touches of bodycolour, 44.5 x 71cm (17½ x 28’’) Signed, lower right Provenance: Sale, Sotheby’s, Lon- don, 28 April, 1983, lot 2556; Sale, Christie’s, London, 10 May, 2007, lot 58; Collection of the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan Jr., thence by descent. € 1,500 - 2,000 52 ATTRIBUTED TO RICHARD TURNER (1798 - 1881) AND GEORGE GORDON PAGE (1836 - 1885) A Design for the Carlisle Bridge over the Liffey, Dublin Pencil and watercolour, 64 x 116.5cm (25 x 45¾’’) George Gordon Page, an English engineer and his collaborator Richard Turner were entrants in the Carlisle Bridge competition of 1862, and were announced the winners ‘after a discreditable delay’ in March 1864. Page exhibited his design at the Royal Academy in 1864 (no.805). € 3,000 - 5,000 Hon . F r an c i s D . Mu r naghan J r. Co l l e c t i on Hon . F r an c i s D . Mu r naghan J r. Co l l e c t i on