Union and display in nineteenth-century Ireland
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2017

This chapter examines the relationship between the condition of political union and artistic display in the Ireland of the nineteenth century. It focuses on two exhibitions of English paintings that attracted considerable public attention in Dublin and Belfast. The two images, Porter's panorama of the 'Storming of Seringapatam' and Thomas Jones Barker's Secret of England's Greatness, are distinctly partisan, that is, they create a false sense of cultural homogeneity. The Dublin exhibition of 186