Prints and Drawings

Acidic patches to zombie whites – recent conservation treatments

October 9, 2015 · 0 comments

in Conservation,Prints & Drawings

The NLI collection is constantly growing. Donations and new acquisitions often need de-framing, conservation treatment or rehousing to ensure long-term preservation and to optimise space and access. It is not always straightforward though, as two 20th century artworks recently showed us to expect the unexpected!   This drawing of actor Arthur Shields PD 4229 TB  is by […]

Tagged as: Archival materials, Chinese white, Conservation, Crepe rubber, Henry Love, Heritage Council intern, Isa MacNie, Preservation, Pressure sensitive tape, Prints and Drawings, Watercolour, Zinc oxide, Zinc white

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The Shemus Cartoon Collection

July 5, 2013 · 2 comments

in Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Prints & Drawings

by Felix M. Larkin, vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s statutory Readers Advisory Committee. His book Terror and Discord: The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal, 1920–1924 was published by A&A Farmar in 2009 In December 2006 the National Library of Ireland acquired some 250 original drawings of the Shemus cartoons […]

Tagged as: Anglo-Irish Treaty, Cartoons, David Lloyd George, Eamon de Valera, Ernest Forbes, Ernest Forbes Holgate, Erskine Childers, Felix M. Larkin, Freeman's Journal, Irish War of Independence, Martin Fitzgerald, Prints and Drawings, R. Hamilton Edwards, Shemus, Shemus Cartoon Collection, Shemus Cartoons, Sir Edward Carson, Sir Hamar Greenwood, Sir James Craig, Terror and Discord

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The Course of True Love

February 14, 2012 · 3 comments

in Collections,Ephemera,Music,Prints & Drawings

Bean an Phoist says:  Honora has so many great collections to choose from that it would have been cruel and heartless to restrict her to just one item that she loves, so here are just some of her favourite LOVEly things for Valentine’s Day 2012…   by Honora Faul, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Ephemera, […]

Tagged as: 18th century, 19th century, Al Goodhart, Benjamin Rhames, Cartoons, Charles Stewart Parnell, Elizabeth Rivers, Ephemera, Frances Ashmore, Guardian Angels, Hamlet, Honora Faul, John D. Reigh, John Fergus O'Hea, John Morley, Johnny Doughboy found a Rose in Ireland, Kay Twomey, Lance Thackery, Leap Year, Matrimonial Map, Mrs Sparks, Music, Niall Murphy Collection, Postcards, Prints and Drawings, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Song Sheet, United Ireland, Valentine Card, Valentine's Day, Weekly Freeman, William Gladstone, William Shakespeare

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