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I really love this painting and would like to get a print of it,have it nicely framed to hang in my living room .
Does anyone know if its possible to get a print and where?


RORY
ps Anyone aware of any other painting that would hang nicely with "The Limerick piper"

I got mine from the National Gallery in Dublin http://www.nationalgallery.ie/ Print on canvas and very nice it is too

Pat.

rorybbellows wrote:Anyone aware of any other painting that would hang nicely with "The Limerick piper"

Full moon?

What? What's wrong? I'm sure it's high quality velvet.

Just throwing this out there as a warning to art print buyers... I had a really bad experience getting a copy of Miranda the Tempest by Waterhouse via http://www.art.com. They sent me their version of the print (after my local frame shop destroyed my original print whilst "mounting it") and their copy was horrible. It was printed on horribly thick paper and the colors were all wrong. Not even close to the original painting, much less my ruined original print from a museum!

Just wanted to warn any of you before you run into a major hassle like I did! You are probably better off sticking with prints from physical shops you can visit, or better yet, the museum where the original is housed.

Matt

I got my Limerick Piper from the nationalgallery.ie as well. Actually the frame I had made for it cost more than the bloody print, but it sure looks nice on the wall.

Thx for the heads-up on art.com, projektio28.

djm

Rory,

I don't see it on the National Gallery website now, but last time I was in Ireland, I saw it in tourist-type places such as the Bunratty Castle gift shop. You might try NPU as well.

All the best,
Joe

Rory its quite large and ye would need a big wall to hang two withoot it dwarfing the room...here is mine


Here is a picture o a blind piper being mugged by the woman behind nicking his hat wi the money in it.


Another mugger at work wi the aid of a dug whit has also grabbed someones shoe....

And finally a real blind piper wi a dead dug...

Uilliam

Here are another couple of painting I'd like to get prints of . Photo 1 and 2 are the same painting .


This one is another favorite,if you have any information I'd be grateful


RORY

Try here They have a few irish piper prints. I didnt realise they were quite as dear as all that. When I were a lad you could get a poster for three quid



Cheers
Bob

Limerick Piper (Restrike Etching) is a print done using the original etched plate from Victorian times. The plate is probably a good bit worse for wear since the artist created it all those years ago. You could ask for a simple digital print of it like the Merry Company 1562 if they have a good enough resolution copy of it. I recommend not getting it printed to canvas though. Paper all the way.



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Ps- The Limerick Piper painting from the first post is still hanging in the National Gallery in Dublin. Go and see it if you can. I got a postcard of it from there and I have a sneaking suspicion they will do a print of it for you if you enquire even though its not on the website any more.

NPU has reprinted several old paintings in An Píobaire. Maybe you could go through some old issues to see if they have more info on the pics you like. Once you have the names of the pictures and the artists, you would have enough info to do a web search for prints.

djm

The Limerick Piper painting from the first post is still hanging in the National Gallery in Dublin.

In fact Haverty painted a number, at least three, of versions of the image. One of which is in the National Gallery of Ireland. Another copy that used to hang in Lissadell House was sold at auction to a private collector a few years ago. That last copy was the original, sold to Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth who exhibited the painting at the Cork exhibition in 1852. William Smith O’Brien commissioned Haverty for a copy of the painting which was presented to the National Gallery in 1864.

The piper is usually identified as Patrick O Brien from Labasheeda, co Clare.

rorybbellows wrote:Here are another couple of painting I'd like to get prints of . Photo 1 and 2 are the same painting .


This one is another favorite,if you have any information I'd be grateful


RORY

There's something about the graininess and slightly over-saturated color of these images that really reminds me of old North Korean propaganda posters...All hail the pleasant national music of the proletariat! Only the Great Leader can play a full three octaves on his chanter...