Country House Collections 13th October 2026

37 91 A SKETCH BOOK BY GEORGE PETRIE (1790 - 1866) dated 1840 - 1841, of townlands in Co. Galway, Offaly and Athlone and , containing circa twenty-one sketches with titles, with one further loose sketch titled ‘Petrie in ecstasy after two ?, two pen drawings on tracing paper one titled ‘Mac Loughlins Castle, Clonmacnoise 24 Aug 41’ and another of stone ruin and a print after Richard Twiss of ‘View of Salmon Leap at Ballyshannon in Ireland’, belonging to Andrew Robinson Esq. C.E (1858 - 1929), with pencil inscriptions to inside cover, music annotations, oblong folio, morocco boards, quarter calf, 21 x 29cm Sketches: -Maam, 14 Aug 1840 -Looking from the valley of the Teernakill from the road near Maam 18 Aug 1840 - Teernakill Bridge near Maam, 19 Aug 1840 - Caislean na Circe (Castle Kirk) 19 Aug 1840 -Maam looking at the river 20 Au- gust 1840 - Castle Hag, Loughmask, 21 Aug 1840 from Inishdurra (with anno- tations describing the planting) - Sketch of a bagpipe player, Irish ? of Fairhill, Maam 22 Aug 1840 - Sketch of cottages and mountains inscribed with time 14 past 6 o’clock 22 Aug 1840 - Sketches of local women in shawls, Galway 24 Aug 1840 - Clare Galway, 25 Aug 1840 - Lough Istrie, 31 Aug 1840 - Bunscariff halfway house, 2 Sep 1840 on ? 9 April 1841 - Door way on the interior of the east side of the square belfry, St Dermots Church, Louch Ree 23 Aug 1840 - East Window St Dermots Church Inis Clotran 23 Aug 1841 - Mac Loughlin Castle, Clonmacnoise, 24 Aug 1841 - St Finians McCarthy Tower, Clonmacnoise 26 Aug 1841 - Sketch of a fiddle player, Athlone 25 Aug 1841 together with a ALS dated 1913 from J.J Buckley of National Museum Ireland relating to the return of the sketchbook after the Petrie (George Petrie) collection had been dispersed and informing Mr. Robinson that he made photographs of the sketch of the piper for their lantern slide collection, noting that Count Plunkett (director 1907 - 1916) had told him he would ‘kindly allow us to have this done’ TOGETHER WITH; GEORGE VICTOR DU NOYER MRIA (1817 - 1869) A sketch book of proof impressions from drawings on wood and principally from original sketches by George Du Noyer, 1864, with attached sheet to inside page listing the number of archaeological subjects (36) and geological subjects (89) and listing locations in Ireland, pages with printed copies of the proof impressions stuck down and then annotated in pencil, often including the locations, names of mountains, rivers, titles for the printed images, oblong folio, quarter calf, Morocco boards, 72pp Born into a Huguenot family in Dublin in 1817, while still a young teenager, Du Noyer was apprenticed to the artist George Petrie, who headed the Topo- graphical Department of the Ordnance Survey. After leaving the Ordnance Survey, Du Noyer worked as an art teacher at the College of St. Columba and was then employed by the newly-formed Geological Survey of Ireland. Over the course of a half century, he travelled the length and breadth of Ireland, sketching and recording as he went. € 3,000 - 5,000 93 JOHN DOWNMAN ARA (1750-1824) Portrait possibly of Sarah Siddons Pencil, stamp and watercolour on paper, 24.5cm x 22cm € 600 - 1,000 92 JOHN DOWNMAN ARA (1750-1824) Portrait possibly of Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford Pencil, stamp and watercolour on paper, 24 x 22cm € 600 - 1,000