Blue-Coat Hospital, Dublin
published March 1798
Medium
Hand-colored aquatint in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.5 × 37.7 cm (10 1/16 × 14 7/8 in.); Plate: 31.5 × 42.5 cm (12 7/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 42 × 55.7 cm (16 9/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
127941
Art Historical Context
Step into the bustling streets of late 18th-century Dublin James Malton's *Blue-Coat Hospital, Dublin a hand-colored aquat published in March 1798. evocative print captures the grand neoclassical facade of the Blue-Coat Hospital, a institution founded in 167 to educate and shelter orphaned boys. Malton, an Irishographical artist renowned for his views of Dublin's architecture created this as part of acclaimed series *A Pictures and Descriptive View of the of Dublin* (1792–1799), offering visitors a vivid snapshot of the city's Georgian elegance amid social reform efforts. The artwork's medium...