Research Catalog

Title

Nathaniel Clements 1705-77 : politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland / A.P.W. Malcolmson.

Author

Malcomson, A. P. W.

Publication

Dublin : Four Courts, [2015], ©2015.

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Details

Description

xiv, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book argues that Nathaniel Clements was an enlightened patron of architecture, not a practising architect., and that he influenced upper-class residential development in Dublin and popularised a particular form of Palladian 'villa-farm' (or modest country house) partly because of who he was -- a high-ranking and well-connected government official and an arbiter of fashion and taste. The two places where his architectural influence is still strongly felt today are the high-fashion enclave of Henrietta Street, Dublin, of which he created about one-third in the period 1733-c. 1740, and the Phoenix Park, of which he was Ranger, where he made important improvements to the landscape and where he built in 1752-7 a new Ranger's Lodge which forms the nucleus of today's Áras an Uachtaráin. The book provides a detailed analysis of these aesthetic achievements and (following Clements' death) of the re-casting of the Ranger's Lodge as a British viceregal residence during the period 1782-c.1800. It concludes with a broader discussion of the 'amateur' tradition in British and Irish architecture and of Clements' place among the 'amateurs' who dominated the art form in the decades before the coming-of-age of a fully fledged architectural profession."--Book jacket.

Subjects

• Ireland
• Architects and patrons
• Architecture
• Art patrons
• 1700 - 1799
• Clements, Nathaniel, -1777
• Ireland > History > 18th century > Biography
• Art patrons > Ireland > Biography
• Architects and patrons > Ireland > History > 18th century
• Biography
• Architecture > Ireland > History > 18th century
• History

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-243) and index.

Contents

From obscurity to opulence : the career of Nathaniel Clements, c. 1720-77.--Luke and Henrietta: the career of Luke Gardiner and the origins of Henrietta Street, c. 1700-1730.--Clements' role in the building of Henrietta Street, c. 1730-57.--The Sackville Street development and the new bridge, 1749-77.--The Phoenix Park, the rangership and the old ranger's lodge, c. 1700-75.--An Elysian seat : the ranger's lodge that Clements built, 1751-77.--The alienation and alteration of the Ranger's Lodge, 1777-1804.--The other houses that Clements built?, c. 1750-75.--Arbiter of taste.--Amateurs and architects.

ISBN

• 1851829148
• 9781851829149

OCLC

• ocn923778095
• 923778095
• SCSB-5818297

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries