Country House Collections at Slane Castle October 12
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2014
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After WILLIAM HINCKS
The Linen Industry; a set of twelve sepia printed and coloured aquatints published by R. Pollard, Spitalfields, London,
mounted in a folio
This endeavour by Hincks was to show the process of producing linen from preparing the ground and sowing, to the
arrival of the finished material at the Linen Hall in Dublin. Its depiction of an agri/industrial process is unique in Irish
18th Century literature.
€3000 - 5000
