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Two volumes containing watercolour paintings depicting improvements in labourers' cottages. Each page contains two images, the cottage as it was before improvements and as it was after. The 1860 volume in particular reveals cottages transformed by the improvements. The 1865 volume is less dramatic, mainly depicting the installation of windows in the cottages, and in one case, the construction of a horseshoe shaped forge.
Sans titreVolume containing watercolour paintings of labourers' cottages as they were in 1860 and after improvements in 1861. Each image is captioned with names of occupying tenants and the location of the houses.
Before and after paintings of James Byrne's house in Ballydownan.
Before and after paintings of W. Coogan's and P. Byrne's houses, Geashill.
Before and after paintings of James Scully's house in Ballinagar.
