Great Irish households

• Titel: Great Irish households
• Titelzusatz: inventories from the long eighteenth century
• Mitwirkende: Fritzpatrick, Leslie [VerfasserIn einer Einleitung]
• Mitwirkende: Barnard, Toby [VerfasserIn eines Vorworts]
• Mitwirkende: Murdoch, T. V. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Cunningham, Jessica [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Campion, Rebecca [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Joyce, Edmund [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Cobbe, Alec [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Adamson, John [MitwirkendeR]
• Verf.angabe: preface by Leslie Fitzpatrick ; foreword by Toby Barnard ; consultant editor Tessa Murloch ; transcriptions by Jessica Cunningham and Rebecca Campion ; with preambles by Jessica Cunningham, Rebecca Campion, Edmund Joyce, Alec Cobbe and John Adamson ; index and appendices by John Adamson
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Verlag: John Adamson
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: 435 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Interessenniveau: 01, General/trade: For a non-specialist adult audience. (01)
• ISBN: 978-1-898565-17-8
• Schlagwörter: (g)Irland / (s)Adelshaus / (s)Ausstattung / (s)Innenarchitektur / (s)Inventar / (z)Geschichte 1789-1830
• Schlagwörter: (g)Irland / (s)Adelshaus / (s)Sammlung / (s)Kunst / (s)Inventar / (z)Geschichte 1789-1830
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: ART / European
• Sach-SW: ART / History / Baroque & Rococo
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
• Sach-SW: Kunstgeschichte
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Geograph. SW: Ireland
• Geograph. SW: Irland
• Zeit-SW: 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: c 1700 to c 1800
• K10plus-PPN: 1823798055

Abstract

The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions. That was not always so. The inventory for Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, for example, was drawn up to make a claim following the house's devastation in the 1798 uprising. Mostly hitherto unpublished, the inventories chosen give new-found insights into the lifestyle and taste of some of the foremost families of the day. Above stairs, the inventories show the evolving collecting habits and tastes of eighteenth-century patrons across Ireland and how the interiors of great town and country houses were arranged or responded to new materials and new ideas. The meticulous recording of the contents of the kitchen and scullery likewise sheds light on life below stairs. Itemized equipment required for the brewhouse, dairy, stables, garden and farmyard reflects the at times significant scale of the communities the houses supported and the remarkable degree of self-sufficiency at some of the demesnes. A comprehensive index facilitates access to the myriad items forming the inventories, while the books listed at three of the houses are tentatively identified in separate appendices. A foreword together with short preambles to the inventories set the households in their historical context. Illustrated with contemporary engravings of the houses and with portraits of the owners of the time, the inventories will appeal to country-house visitors, historians of interiors, patronage, collecting and material culture as well as to scholars, curators, collectors, creative designers, film directors, bibliographers, lexicographers and novelists. The eighteenth century is the period onto which the Knight of Glin directed his penetrating gaze as art historian. The book is dedicated to his memory