Maguire and Son
Active: 1872 -
Function: Marble works, marble merchants.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Displayed Specimen Slabs of Irish Marbles
1872
Exhibited specimen slabs of Irish marbles, manufactured by Colles of Co. Kilkenny. May have been an agent for Colles. Potential end users were ecclesiastical sculptors and church decorators.
Locations
Ran a business at 10 Dawson Street Dublin | View on map
1876 - 1896
'Marble Works'; 'Marble Merchants'.
'15 Dawson Street' also appears as part of their business address from 1896.
Ran a business at 10 and 15 Dawson Street Dublin | View on map
1876 - 1896
'15 Dawson Street' appears as part of the business address for Maguire and Son from 1896 only, whereas 10 Dawson Street appears as their business address from 1876.
Institutional and Business Connections
Precursor to Maguire and Gatchell (limited)
1901
'Marble Merchants'.
See also 'Maguire and Son', operating from 10 and 15 Dawson Street.
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed under Stone Yards Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1881 Thom's Directory
'Marble Merchants'.
Listed under Stone Yards Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1886 Thom's Directory
1886
'Marble Merchants'.
Listed under Stone Yards Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1891 Thom's Directory
'Marble Merchants'.
Listed under Stone Yards Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1896 Thom's Directory
'Marble Merchants'.
Listed under Stone Yards Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1876 Thom's Directory
1876
'Marble Works'.
Sources
Official Catalogue of the Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures and Loan Museum of Works of Art, 1872
1872
Section C, Class 1: Marble, Porcelain and Pottery, p. 26., no. 3.
Citing this record
'Maguire and Son', 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/organization.php?id=msib3_1208345790, accessed 21 Feb 2019]