Barracks, Dublin
published July 1795
Medium
Hand-colored aquatint in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.1 × 38.2 cm (7 9/16 × 15 1/16 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 43.5 cm (10 1/8 × 17 3/16 in.); Sheet: 42 × 55 cm (16 9/16 × 21 11/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
127952
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant streets of late 18th-century Dublin with James Malton's *Barracks, Dublin*, a hand-colored aquatint published in July 1795. Malton, an accomplished Irish topographical artist, captured the city's architectural grandeur in his renowned series *A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin* (1792–1799). This print showcases the barracks—a key military structure amid Britain's colonial presence in Ireland—rendered with meticulous detail on ivory wove paper, measuring an image size of 19.1 × 38.2 cm. Aquatint, Malton's favored technique, revolutionized printmaking...