IRISH CELTIC PICTURE ST PATRICKS STREET IRELAND

The2FunAdGuyz offer a new print of a turn-of-the-century Irish photochrom, taken in 1890, featuring St. Patricks Street, Cork, Ireland. This Celtic photo print, with urban 1890 architecture plainly visible in the picture, works well in many home decor situations including a home library, bar, Irish pub, living room, den or any room requiring a landscape, building or architectural view. This view captures a bustling, but by no means crowded or hectic, street filled with trolley cars, shoppers, pedestrians, wagons and classic Irish jaunting cars with passengers seated sideways on them. The double-decker trolley cars in the foreground carry the numbers 10 (l) and 13 (r). At the far end of the street is a building with a sign reading “The Standard House”. This photochrom offers a rare, color glimpse of the Irish architecture of the era. The buildings are mostly three or four stories in height. This view becomes historically more important because of the renovation of this section of Cork at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Today, St. Patrick’s Street in Cork, Ireland remains a major shopping street in this Irish seaport of Cork, as it was in this 1890 photochrom. “Straid Naomb Padrag” is the Irish name. Locals affectionately call it “pang”. The street has a curved shape because of its construction over one arm of the Lee River.

CAPTION: St. Patricks Street, County Cork, Ireland in 1890.

PHOTOCHROM: The photochrom process was a combination of photography and lithography that started in the 1800s and used until the development of true color photography in the 1930s. While the results can look more like a painting than a photograph, the images are striking. The photochrom (sometimes-spelled photochrome in America) system developed in Switzerland and then licensed to various companies in other countries. Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan was the only company to license the process in the United States. The process first took black and white photographs and hand colored the resulting print. Then, using a special series of stone plates (minimum of four and up to 14 separate stones for a single print), prints could be reproduced in larger quantities. One of the reasons the results are so spectacular is that the pigments in the inks and ingredients to process the stones came from exotic locations around the world. The results—even more than a hundred years later—give us a unique, richly colored and very intense image.

ORIGINAL MEDIA: The Detroit Publishing Co. (original name Detroit Photo Graphic Company), Detroit, Michigan, originally produced the image used for this new print. During the last decade of the 1800s and early 1900s, they produced some of the finest photochrom images. Unfortunately, cheaper (and frequently lesser quality) printing methods spelled their demise.

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PAPER QUALITY: This new print is on a highest quality, acid-free, 100-pound glossy premium text paper that allows for maximum color brilliance and fidelity for older images.

Image Size: 16.5 inches wide by 10.5 inches high.

Paper Size: 17 inches wide by 11 inches high. This allows for a small border around the image for matting and framing. When matted, this format is perfect for a standard 16-inch x 20-inch frame, a manageable size for a wide variety of decorating purposes.

HOME DECOR IDEAS: this vintage photograph is a perfect wall hanging for a family game room, home bar, Irish pub or any room that needs a fun photograph. (Sign up for our periodic home decor newsletter by Clicking Here).

GIFT IDEAS: Use this rare photochrom as a thoughtful and beautiful gift for any Irish friend or relative on any occasion.

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