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09-APR-2017

Ireland - Waterford - Bishops Palace - Drawing Room.

The Bishop's Palace Museum is a 250-year-old Georgian structure and contains artifacts dating from 17th century Waterford to the present day. The Anglo-German architect Richard Castle designed the Bishop's Palace, which was constructed in 1741. Richard Cassels (1690–1751), who anglicised his name to Richard Castle, ranks with Edward Lovett Pearce as one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. Richard Castle also designed Leinster House in Dublin, the city residence of the Fitzgerald family, Dukes of Leinster.
This location was the site of an earlier medieval palace and became the home of the Church of Ireland Bishops of Waterford and Lismore until the early 20th century. It then became a boys school and subsequently council offices. Here we see the lavish Drawing Room – a beautiful large room with lovely Versailles style chairs in jade blue. Another major feature of this room were the so called Dragon Mirrors. These spectacular giltwood mirrors and the marble-top giltwood console table were made in 1753 by a master virtuoso craftsman Thomas Johnson (1723-1799), among the finest designer-carvers of mid-18th Britain and Ireland. Mirrors were more expensive than paintings before electricity as they caught and magnified the candlelight.

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