Jeremiah Wade
Active: 1865 -
Function: Tombstone manufacturers, sculptors
Policy: ' J.Wade, monumental sculptor, artist, and general stone-cutter, removed to Upper Berkeley-Street, Dublin. Irish and foreign marble busts, figures, models, chimney-pieces, monuments, tombs, headstones, table tops, and printers imposing stones, & c., manufactured at nearly half the usual prices. Old monuments, tombs and headstones, cleaned, polished, and lettered the same as new. Work supplied to all parts of the Kingdom'.
'In consequence of the public fraud and exorbitant charges so often and so justly complainled of, J.W. solicits his friends and the public not to permit their credulity to be imposed on, but to visit his establishment and choose for themselves. His prices are as follows...'[list of products below]
'All of the very best limestone. No bad stone used. N.B. J.W. has no connection with any Limestone Quarry but his own, which is equal, if not superior, to any Quarry in Ireland'.
As advertised in The Dublin Builder, Dec. 1st, 1865.
Products & Services
Tombstones
Cost: £6
Notes: 7 ft long by 3 1/2 ft wide
tombstones
Cost: £7
Notes: 8 ft long by 4 ft wide
Headstones
Cost: £1 10s.
Notes: 2 ft wide by 5 1/2 ft high, ornamented: 2-0-0 to 2-10-0
Headstones
Cost: £3 5s.
Notes: 3 ft wide by 6 ft high, ornamented: 3-0-0 to 4-10-0
Monuments, from
Cost: £5
Notes: from 5-0-0 to 40-0-0.
Locations
Ran a business at 15 Berkeley Street Dublin Ireland | View on map
1876 - 1921
'Tombstone Manufacturers'.
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1876 Thom's Directory
'Tombstone Manufacturers'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1881 Thom's Directory
'Tombstone Manufacturers'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1886 Thom's Directory
'Tombstone Manufacturers'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1901 Thom's Directory
'Tombstone Manufacturers'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1896 Thom's Directory
'Tombstone Manufacturers'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1906 Thom's Directory
'Tombstone Maunfacturers'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1911 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1916 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1921 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Publications
Advertised in The Dublin Builder, 1865-1866 Illustrated Record of Art, Science, Industry and Manufacture
1 December 1865: 'Monumental Sculptor'
Advertised in The Irish Builder, 1871 The Irish Builder and Engineering Record, formerly The Dublin Builder
15 January 1871: 'Monumental Sculptor, Artist, and general Stone Cutter'
Sources
The Dublin Builder, 1865-1866 Illustrated Record of Art, Science, Industry and Manufacture
1866
1 December 1865: 'Monumental Sculptor'
The Irish Builder, 1871 The Irish Builder and Engineering Record, formerly The Dublin Builder
1871
15 January 1871
Citing this record
'Jeremiah Wade', 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_1208448755, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
