Hannah Tighe’s sketches of her home, Woodstock Estate in Inistioge, Co Kilkenny, show an early interest in drawing that developed through her life, as Anne Hodge reveals
‘The elevated banks on each side richly covered with wood, while the murmuring of a rivulet which passes through the glen and forms a very interesting waterfall above the cottage is completely in unison with these other objects which conspire to produce the sense of nature.’
A group of delicate sketches made by fifteen-year-old Hannah Tighe mirrors this description of Woodstock in Co Kilkenny, written by a visitor in 1815. Indeed, Tighe’s sketchbook provides a fascinating record of the lifestyle and surroundings of a privileged young Irish woman at the turn of the 18th century.
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