Please find a place to stand near the entrance to Trinity College. If you look across College Green to the north, the big building with columns, now the Bank of Ireland, was once the Irish Houses of Parliament. This was where the Irish Parliament met until the Act of Union of 1800, when Ireland came under direct rule from London.
Our lovely and rare copy of Malton’s book of prints, A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, shows this view from the 1790s. James Malton was trained as an architectural draughtsman in the office of James Gandon, the architect of some of the great buildings of Dublin. Malton’s drawings of Dublin’s buildings and streetscapes, published in a large collection of prints in 1799, provide a great record of Georgian Dublin.
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