George Pettie 1790-1866 The Rediscovery of Ireland’s Past
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The genius of George Pettie (1790-1866) is perhaps obscured by having been dispersed over so many fields, painter, antiquarian, historian, scholar, academician, archaeologist, musicologist: in each of these areas we encounter his achievements. Pettie, more than any other single individual in the 19th century, traced the cultural profile by which Ireland is still identified today, dominating the newly emergent field od Irish studies in the first half of that century. His view of the Irish landscape is still with us, not only pictorially, but also ichnographically, it was Pettie who began to explore the Irish space and landscape as an echo chamber informed by the lingering memories of native cultural traditions and antiquities: it was Pettie who began the exploration of this repository for its cultural riches: it was he who, practically the first among the English-oriented, educated elite, began to see the living peasantry not just menial rustics, but as the living heirs and continuance of Gaelic antiquity.
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Weight | 1.401 kg |
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Dimensions | 23.5 × 25.3 × 2.5 cm |
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