Address
Collection object
1990.0047
Height thro' mount 52.4 W. 39.9, frame internally H. 64.6 W. 51, externally H. 68.7 W. 55.1
Illuminated address, framed, to the Mayor Ambrose Hall, from The Building Trades of Limerick, 1875. Text in frame at centre in a border of coats of arms and other symbols, on a cream coloured paper. Text thanks him for his support during the recent strike and is signed on behalf of the Building Committee by; Peter McDonnell, chairman; Denis Gavin and David Clohesy, hon. secs.; John Godsell, treasurer; Michael Kiely, for guild of stone-cutters; Patrick FitzGerald, for masons; John Sheehy for plasterers; John Reddin for carpenters; John Carey for painters. Text largely in black ink with sepia underlining, with illumination in red, red-brown, green, gold and light blue. Border decoration on a pale blue background with the same colours as used in text. Across the top are three fields linked by a festoon of fruit and leaves. Top left, arms of the masons; a shield with a blue chevron on a red field, with an open compass incorporated within the chevron; two crenellated towers above the chevron and on below; helm over shield, surmounted by a crest of a bent arm holding a plasterer's trowel; two men in white aprons, wearing stove-pipe hats and holding a plasterer's trowel in one hand, as supporters; motto beneath "Amor Honor et Justitia" (Love honour and justice). Centre top, arms of the stone-cutters; shield with a white chevron on a red field, three crenellated towers above chevron, set square and compass below; crest of a domed church under a round arch; supporters,two men in stove-pipe hats and aprons standing on the tops of pillars, one holding a chisel; motto below "We will raise a temple to the most high"; scroll around reads "Stone cutters of the City of Limerick". Top right, arms of plasterers; shield in four quadrants, repeating diagonally; top left, a blue chevron on a white field, with a plasterer's trowel and axe above with an unidentified tool? below; bottom left crossed axes over a plasterer's trowel on a blue background; helm over with no visor and human face; crest of a twin towered crenellated gatehouse with a bare bent arm holding an axe rising out of the left tower and the same but holding a trowel rising from the right; supporters, two lions rampant with red upper half and blue lower; motto at bottom reads, "Love the Brotherhood". Right side below the plasterers two cornucopiae rising to meet the skull of a giant elk, this motif is repeated in the same position at left side. Arms of the painters; shield,a twin towered gatehouse on a split field, left upper quadrant white, lower red, right side a red chevron on a blue field with one horses head below and one above (second obscured by gatehouse; crest of a phoenix rising from the flames; supporters, leopard rampant at left, bearded figure in biblical attire holding a palette; motto below "Love honour & obedience", over "Friendly brethren of St Luke". Below two fantastical fish intertwined to form an oval, with an anchor descending and trident rising within the oval. Across the bottom, three fields linked by a festoon in the form of the mayoral chain and separated by crossed city maces. Bottom right; arms of the city of Limerick, a twin towered gatehouse over the motto "Urbs antiqua fuit studiisquae asperrima belli". Centre bottom, Hibernia; a sitting female figure with her left arm raised and pointing upwards with a harp resting against her right leg and arm; in the background left is a high cross and at right a round tower. Bottom left a shield with diagonally repeating motifs; top left three halberds in a vertical line on a blue field, bottom left a red St Andrew's cross on a white field with three fleurs-de-lis in each quadrant, and a gold bar with three red mullets across the top; crest of Hall family at left of a plumed armoured and bridled horse, at right a boar with three mullets superimposed, unidentified family; motto "Nunquam Victum" (Never conquered). Above two intertwined fantastical fish forming an oval with two hands shaking below a five pointed star in the oval. Above that and below the repeated elk skull, the carpenters; a classical temple
Chris Doswell (framer)