BANTRY HOUSE A set of six professionally taken photographs of the interior and exterior of Bantry House, 19th Century,each 24 x 29cm. Lady Olive White daughter of William White 3rd Earl of...

BANTRY HOUSE A set of six professionally taken photographs of the interior and exterior of Bantry House, 19th Century,each 24 x 29cm. Lady Olive White daughter of William White 3rd Earl of Bantry, married Arthur Guinness and the reception was held at Bantry House 16th February 1871. It is likely that the present photographs are a record of the house at that time. An invaluable record, the house having since being systematically denuded of the spectacular collections formed by the 2nd Earl of Bantry (1800-1868), of significant note is the positioning of ''Erminia and the wounded Tancred'', over the mantel piece (now Accedemia, Venice) and ''Charles and Ubaldo resisting the enchantments of Armida's nymphs'', over the door (now National Gallery, Washington) from the set of eight by Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi. See Peter Murray, ''Crusades in Arts, Irish Arts Review Vol. 31, no.2'' which explains the dodgy circumstances of their removal.

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