 About the Cover
In this issue Killian Robinson provides new insights into Dublin tall clock makers, primarily of the eighteenth century. In part two of this article, coming in October, regulator, musical, carriage, and other types of clocks will be featured. Killian writes of this month's front cover, "shown here is the dial of a longcase clock, by the eighteenth century Dublin clockmaker Thomas Blundell, which has an automation of father Time in the arch. To the right is an earlier clock in mahogany by the Dublin maker George Pilkington. the view below is of Charlemont House, Parnell Square, Dublin, and dates from about 1792. This was one of twenty-five famous engravings published in A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin by James Malton. Little has changed in this scene over the years, except for the mode of transport and the dress of the people." |
