Abstract
Francis Place was an early ‘tourist’, coming to Ireland from his home in York for reasons of personal interest and curiosity rather than purposes connected to trade, religion or military surveying. Contemporary English visitors included Thomas Denton and James Verdon, who kept written records of their journeys in 1687–8 and 1699 respectively, but Place was one of the very first travellers to record his experiences primarily through images rather than words, and his drawings provide an important record of Irish urban and rural environments which went on to change significantly, sometimes entirely, over the next 300 year
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 6 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | History Ireland |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2022 |