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The2FunAdGuyz offer a new, high quality Reproduction print of a turn-of-the-century Irish color photochrom, taken in 1890, featuring a view of Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland as it was then. This Celtic print, with castle architecture plainly visible in the picture, works well in many home decor situations including a home library, bar, Irish pub, living room, den or any room requiring a landscape, building or architectural view. The legendary Kilkenny Castle is one of the best-known attractions in Ireland. At one point in the 1640s, Kilkenny Castle served as a meeting place for the General Assembly of the Confederate Irish Government, a rebel movement. Built as the home of the powerful Butler family, who arrived in the area in 1185, family members and the Irish Government who have owned the building since the 1960s renovated the castle numerous times. In the decades just before this photograph, an extensive renovation in the mock-medieval style took place creating the structure in this photo. Today, the castle is open to the public. A cultural icon for the area and all of Ireland, the castle serves as the home to traveling National Gallery exhibits. CAPTION: Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1890. PHOTOCHROM: The photochrom process was a combination of photography and lithography that started in the 1800s and used until the development of true color photography in the 1930s. While the results can look more like a painting than a photograph, the images are striking. The photochrom (sometimes misspelled as photochrome in America) system developed in Switzerland and then licensed to various companies in other countries. Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan was the only company to license the process in the United States. The process first took black and white photographs and hand colored the resulting print. Then, using a special series of stone plates (minimum of four and up to 14 separate stones for a single print), prints could be reproduced in larger quantities. One of the reasons the results are so spectacular is that the pigments in the inks and ingredients to process the stones came from exotic locations around the world. The results—even more than a hundred years later—give us a unique, richly colored and very intense image. ORIGINAL MEDIA: The Detroit Publishing Co. (original name Detroit Photo Graphic Company), Detroit, Michigan, originally produced the image used for this new print. During the last decade of the 1800s and early 1900s, they produced some of the finest photochrom images. Unfortunately, cheaper (and frequently lesser quality) printing methods spelled their demise.  PAPER QUALITY: This new print is on a highest quality, acid-free, 100-pound glossy premium text paper that allows for maximum color brilliance and fidelity for older images. For an expanded explanation of our Paper Quality, go to our FAQ by Clicking Here. Image Size: 16.5 inches wide by 10.5 inches high. For an expanded explanation of Image Size, go to our FAQ by Clicking Here. Paper Size: 17 inches wide by 11 inches high. This allows for a small border around the image for matting and framing. For an expanded explanation of Paper Size, go to our FAQ by Clicking Here.
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