Rosebery's
Lot 1172
Robert Shaw, Irish, late 18th century- "Plan and Elevation of a Bridge.. to be built over the River Liffey at Island Bridge, Dublin"; pen and black ink wash, signed and with inscription, 31x42cm: together with two other late 18th century architectural bridge designs/proposals for the Island Bridge over the River Liffey, Dublin, by different hands, both pen black ink and watercolour, each with inscription and one signed Turnhale, Note: Island Bridge and the surrounding area are named, because of the island formed at the junction of the Camac and Liffey rivers. In 1577, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, while Sir Henry Sidney was Lord Deputy of Ireland, an arched stone bridge was built here to replace an earlier structure nearby at Kilmainham. This bridge was swept away by a flood in 1787, and in 1794 the replacement bridge, that is standing today, was constructed. The structure is a single 32-metre span ashlar masonry elliptical arch bridge and was originally named Sarah's Bridge after Sarah, Countess of Westmoreland and Vice-Queen of Ireland, wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, who laid the first stone on the June 22, 1794. The bridge was renamed Island Bridge in 1922 following independence of the Free State, similarly to many other Dublin bridges named for British peers. (3) (unframed)
