Henry McCarter's Scenes from Early Irish History

Additional material added 8 March 2008 here at the top and two pieces at the bottom.

This is dedicated to a dear old friend, painter and teacher Robert Emmet Grady, who departed this life in August 2005 at the grand age of 91.
The last time I saw him he was in his mid-eighties, chopping wood and doing 45 push-ups each day when he wasn't playing the Irish pipes, painting and print-making.

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In time for Saint Patrick's Day I've uploaded Henry McCarter's Scenes from the Early History of Ireland, published in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for December 1906, with explanatory notes by noted Irish scholar Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) who served as president of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

Henry McCarter was born 5 July 1886 in Philadelphia, and died 20 November 1942 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He studied with Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Leon Bonnat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris; and with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Click on these images to enlarge them. I hope you can read the text as well. Perhaps a magnifying glass will help. I'm having success with a Bausch & Lomb 4-inch (cm. 10) magnifier.

The first page of the article.

Detail of illustration only.

Detail of illustration only.

The narrative is then interrupted by these facing pages.

Narrative continues.

End page.

I'm sorry to say that all I have of this piece are these two illustrations. It's by noted Irish nationalist author Alice L. Milligan, from Harper's Monthly Magazine for January 1901 and it was reproduced in gray tones. More's the pity.

Comments

[bonnie]

Fantastic!