Ireland GLENARM BAY CASTLE SAINT PATRICH CHURCH ANTRIM, 1839 Art Print Engraving

Description: GLENARM Artist: William Henry Bartlett ____________ Engraver: F. W. Topham Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS OF IRISH SCENERY LIKE THIS ONE!! AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING PRINTED IN 1839!! VERY OLD WORLD! INCREDIBLE DETAIL! Glenarm claims to be the oldest town in Ulster having been granted a charter in the 12th Century. Southernmost of the nine glens, is among the most under populated of the glens and is due mainly to the Glenarm Castle Estate that spans the glen. This estate has been designated an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) and it has adopted an environmentally friendly policy to ensure the safety of the glen's natural resources and wildness. As you travel down the glen from the open moorlands of the Antrim Plateau you will enter a silent glen, the road tunneled by overhanging oak trees meanders down the side off the estate, you will see a haven of wildlife with wild pheasants (I know I seen them on the road), foxes and rabbits. The estate is home Aberdeen Angus/Cross suckler cattle and mainly grey-faced ewes (sheep), it also caters for activities including open days, shooting, river fishing, 4x4 off-road driving and corporate entertainment. When you enter the village it is probably best to park at the seafront and walk around. Claiming to be the oldest town in Ireland after being granted a charter in the 12th century, Glenarm is tiny village with narrow little thoroughfares soaked in culture with friendly people, a forest walk and don't miss Bill & Christina Steenson crafting their jewellery masterpieces in the open workshop/showroom on the main street. The Barbican gate stands proudly in one of the side streets as a reminder of the immense history that surrounds the village. Evidence suggests that the glen has been occupied since the late Stone Age (Neolithic period) with at least one court cairn and several wedge tombs discovered. There are also a number of Iron Age raths and souterrains, indeed a rath has recently been excavated and found to have been occupied between 500AD and 950AD. Around 1500AD a Third Order Franciscan Friary was founded on the site where the Church of Ireland now stands, Shane O'Neill's decapitated body is said have been laid to rest here in 1567AD after he was killed at Cushendun by the MacDonnell's. FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: We rounded a noble promontory into Glenarm, the church-spire first breaking on the view, and the towers of the castle immediately after-the whole appearance of the town and its fine points of picturesque resembling the moving tableaux of theatrical scenery. We lost no time in making for the castle, and turning out of the street, came directly upon the bridge connected with its lofty and superb barbican. A small mountain-river brawls between the town and the lofty structure which, in feudal days, lodged its master, the M'Donnell, and from the deep water rises directly the stern old wall, with its embrasures and towers, in as high preservation as on the day it was completed. A great part of the walls and ornamental architecture of Glenarm are modern, but all the additions are executed in the finest spirit of antiquity. A more beautiful gem than this castellated structure, nestled between the overhanging sides of this ravine, we never have seen. It has all the charms, beside, of high cultivation; the deer-park stretching away up the valley, and the green swards and walks within the grounds, being kept with the nice care which distinguishes the noble demesnes of England. The village of Glenarm consists of about two hundred cottages, and appears originally to have been built for the clansmen of the noble family whose castle stands beyond the river. The castle is a stately, ancient pile, in a commanding position; from one front there is a view of the bay and its enclosing promontories, and from the other a prospect up the wooded glen towards the deer-park. The castle is large, and contains some excellent apartments; its exterior presents something of the character of a baronial castle of the fifteenth century. The approach to the castle is by a lofty barbican standing on the northern extremity of the bridge. Passing through this, a long terrace, overhanging the river, and confined on the opposite side by a lofty embattled curtain-wall, leads through an avenue of ancient lime-trees to the principal front of the castle, the appearance of which from this approach is very impressive. Lofty towers, terminated with cupolas and gilded vanes occupy the angles of the building; the parapets are crowded with gables, decorated with carved pinnacles, and exhibiting various heraldic ornaments. The hall is a noble apartment, forty-four feet in length by twenty in breadth, and thirty feet high; in the centre of which stands a handsome billiard-table. Across one end passes the gallery, communicating with the bed-chambers, and supported by richly-ornamented columns, from the grotesque ornaments of which springs a beautiful groined ceiling. On the principal floor are several noble apartments; the dining-parlour, forty feet by twenty-four, and the drawing-room, forty-four by twenty-two, are the most spacious: the small drawing-room, library, &c„ though of considerably less dimensions, are most commodious apartments. The demesne of Glenarm is very extensive, and beautifully wooded: it has latterly been much improved, and many obstructions to the view removed. There is also an enclosure in the glen, called the Great Deer Park, winch is generally supposed to be the finest park in the kingdom, and the venison fed here the choicest. The parish-church stands near one of the entrances to the demesne, upon the beach, with a small enclosed cemetery around. There are no monuments in the interior. In the burying-ground, around the church, are the remains of a cruciform building, formerly a monastery for Franciscan friars of the third order. The Bay of Glenarm is formed by a deep circular winding of the shore, and is protected on each side by lofty headlands. There is deep water here, and a quay might readily be formed by building upon a natural basaltic pier on the north side of the bay. This would be not only of great advantage to this place, but of universal benefit to the shipping in the northern part of the Irish Sea, for, from the tremendous swell and precipitous shore, the land is unapproachable when the wind blows from the north-east, nor is there a sheltering harbour on this coast from Lough Foyle to Lame. Further, the fishing along the coast is at present so exceedingly precarious, that it does not yield a sufficient return to the poor seaman who has the hardihood to prosecute it. This would be remedied, to a certain extent, by the erection of a pier in this harbour, where the little skiff might fly for protection when the sea assumed one of those angry perturbations which are so sudden and so frequent on the Antrim coast. At present, for seven months and upwards, the fisherman's boat is drawn up on the beach, and the inverted hulk secured by a quantity of large stones until the return of the milder season; for as he has no place of retreat in the hurricane, and he dares not approach the shore while it continues, he is obliged to abandon this vocation altogether, and seek another and less perilous mode of subsistence. PRINT DATE: This lithograph was printed in 1839; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Print dimensions are 7 inches by 10 inches including a white border of approximately one inch on each side (not shown). PRINT CONDITION: Condition is fine. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. ARTIST: BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST: William Henry Bartlett, (b London, 26 March 1809; died at sea off Malta, 13 Sept 1854) was an English draughtsman, active also in the Near East, Continental Europe and North America. He was a prolific artist and an intrepid traveller. His work became widely known through numerous engravings after his drawings published in his own and other writers' topographical books. His primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and by means of established pictorial conventions to render 'lively impressions of actual sights', as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). His several views of Ireland were done in the latter half of 1939, and as Nathaniel Parker Willis stated, "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch, the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed". The interest in these engravings today is as much for the quality of the rendering and presentation of the architecture of the period as it is for the representation of the landscape. SHIPPING:Buyers to pay shipping/handling, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular mail. We pack properly to protect your item! Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper. EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION!

Price: 11.19 USD

Location: Downers Grove, Illinois

End Time: 2024-02-15T13:49:17.000Z

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