^Lot 145 Patrick Scott-12 SKETCH DESIGNS FOR PROPOSED MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL OF FOUR PROVINCES

Patrick Scott-12 SKETCH DESIGNS FOR PROPOSED MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL OF FOUR PROVINCES HOUSE

gouache; (each mounted but unframed)most with typed label on reverse detailing title and description of design; held within a card portfolio case with typed label inside cover detailing title of collection
9.75 by 16.75in., 24.765 by 42.545cm.
Orientation of Image: L

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Notes: Titles include; The Assize of Bread, 1384, Baking in Ancient Ireland, Bread Riots, 1578, Bread for the Poor, 1650, Parade of the Guilds, 1750, Lord Mayor's Procession, 1801, Rise of the Journeymen, 1820, Trades Procession 1875, Ralahine, Connolly in Belfast, 1910, The Trades Council, 1913.
The Bakers Union of Ireland opened their new headquarters, Four Provinces House, in 1947. It housed a bakery school and an 8,000 volume library. Patrick Scott was later, in 1947, to produce a mural for the restaurant at the top of Busáras, commissioned by the architect Michael Scott.