Lot 58: Thomas Lindsay (1793-1861)

Strand Road near Sandymount, Dublin
inscribed, dated and numbered 'Near Sandymount, Dublin Sept 58/No 11' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour, watermark 'J WHAT[MAN] TURKE[Y MILL].../18..'
6 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. (16.8 x 26.3 cm.)

with Heather Newman, Gloucestershire.

Situated near Dublin city centre, the long expanse of Sandymount Strand had been used as a bathing beach since the eighteenth century. It also has a literary claim to fame as it was a favourite haunt of James Joyce, featuring in the opening chapter of Ulysses.

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