We bought this print from a carboot sale this morning. We paid three Euros for it. It's a copy of A Connemara Girl. A early 1870s painting by Irish artist Augustus Nicholas Burke.
It depicts a young girl or Colleen in traditional Connemara attire carrying seaweed and heather with her nanny goats. You can see it in the National Gallery.
I think it's beautiful and a nice find at a carboot sale on a red hot Sunday morning.
I enlarged it - the picture I mean! It is indeed a fine, romantic image of an Ireland that is now lost - except in distant memories.
ReplyDeleteVery true YP. Painted back in the way when that rural way of life was the norm.
DeleteA lovely print Dave. I hope you will put it on your wall.
ReplyDeletePleased you like it Rachel. It's on the wall. Thanks.
DeleteI really like this. It's quiet and dignified. We see that she is poor, but there is no sense of pity. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteYou describe the painting very well the veg artist. She looks content in her role in life. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet picture! Do you get to carboot sales every weekend?
ReplyDeleteWe try to weather permitting Debby.
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