Irish Cross
Created by Earley and Company
Date: June 1865
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: cross
Material: stone - limestone - portland stone
Technique: carved
Description: Commemorative Irish Cross, executed for Mr O'Farrell and erected in Glasnevin cemetery. Very elaborate commission, with two full pages of costs, detailing costs related to carvers, masons, preparatory drawings, portland stone used, labour and fixings including casks of portland cement, 500 bricks, etc.
Notes: costs from July 1864
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators) Documentation: Box 1 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation
Ledger, ECD/6, pp. 33-34
Citing this record
'Irish Cross', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1214319132, accessed 12 Nov 2019]
