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Title: Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin
Year: 1780 (1780s)
Authors: Pool, Robert, artist Cash, John Lodge, John, d. 1796 Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Dublin : Printed for J. Williams, no. 21, Skinner-row
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ree-ftone, and is richlyembellifhed, in the firft ftory, by ificle andrufticated work, and in the fecond, by a rangeof pilafters in the Doric order, with their en-tablature, and pedeftals; between each of them,under the windows, are handfome balluftrades,and in the center, a Venetian window of theTufcan order ; the apartments are judiciouflydifpofed and elegantly decorated. The Offices,which are detached from the Houfe, and ap-pear as wings, are in a fine tafte, and verycommodious ; indeed, objections are made byfome, to the unufual fize of the chimnies M in 42 THE FROVOSTs HOUSE. in the latter, which, it muft be confefled, havenot a pleafing appearance ; while others, cen-fure perhaps with reafon, the fcite, as being toomuch detached from the Univerfity, of whichit mould be a part. Before the Houfe is a fpa-cious Court, enclofed by a wall, with a grandgate-way, beautifully rufticated, and on each fideis a fmaller door. The Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinfon, isthe prefent Provoft. ROYAL
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Tfarnj«:/;arjj.iutwiJi „uusgg ROYAL EXCHANGE. X H E Royal Exchange, fituated in the cen-ter of the City, near the Caftle, and oppofiteParliament-ftreet, and EfTex-bridge, of which itcommands a pleafing view, is a moft mao-ni-ficent edifice, and juftly claims the admirationof Foreigners, being perhaps the moft elegantftructure of its kind in Europe. It was begunin the year 1769, and the firft ftone was laidby his Excellency George Lord Vifcount Townf-hend, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Thebuilding was defigned by Mr. Cooley, andopened for tranfa£ting bufinefs, in the be-ginning of the year 1779, being ten years inere&ing. The expences, amounting to about40,000/. were defrayed by Lottery Schemes,conducted by the Merchants of Dublin, with anintegrity, that will do them immortal honour. The form of this beautiful edifice, is near-ly a fquare, having three fronts of Portland M 2 ftcne. 44 DESCRIPTION OF ftone, in the Corinthian order, crowned by adome in the center of the buildi

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