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Great Irish Households - Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Great Irish Households - Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged,
furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the
listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner
and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions.
That was not always so. The inventory for Castlecomer House, Co.
Kilkenny, for example, was drawn up to make a claim following the
house's devastation in the 1798 uprising. Mostly hitherto
unpublished, the inventories chosen give new-found insights into
the lifestyle and taste of some of the foremost families of the
day. Above stairs, the inventories show the evolving collecting
habits and tastes of eighteenth-century patrons across Ireland and
how the interiors of great town and country houses were arranged or
responded to new materials and new ideas. The meticulous recording
of the contents of the kitchen and scullery likewise sheds light on
life below stairs. Itemized equipment required for the brewhouse,
dairy, stables, garden and farmyard reflects the at times
significant scale of the communities the houses supported and the
remarkable degree of self-sufficiency at some of the demesnes. A
comprehensive index facilitates access to the myriad items forming
the inventories, while the books listed at three of the houses are
tentatively identified in separate appendices. A foreword together
with short preambles to the inventories set the households in their
historical context. Illustrated with contemporary engravings of the
houses and with portraits of the owners of the time, the
inventories will appeal to country-house visitors, historians of
interiors, patronage, collecting and material culture as well as to
scholars, curators, collectors, creative designers, film directors,
bibliographers, lexicographers and novelists. The eighteenth
century is the period onto which the Knight of Glin directed his
penetrating gaze as art historian. The book is dedicated to his
memory.
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