The Lying-In Hospital (The Rotunda), Dublin – John Lodge Engraving Print

The Lying-In Hospital, Dublin, a line engraving by John Lodge after Robert Pool and John Cash, about 1794.

A domed cupola tower crowns the pedimented front, with curved colonnades running out to either side. Dr Bartholomew Mosse opened the Lying-In Hospital on what is now Parnell Square in 1757 — one of the oldest maternity hospitals in the world, still at work today as the Rotunda. It was engraved for Zachariah Jackson's Dublin edition of Payne's New System of Universal Geography, published in the 1790s, and lettered with the publisher’s name. This work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

About the Artist

John Lodge (died 1796) was an engraver who worked in Dublin and London. Many of his plates were made after drawings by the architects Robert Pool and John Cash, whose Views of the Most Remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and Other Edifices in the City of Dublin, published in 1780, was an early illustrated survey of the Georgian city.

Sizes & Format

• 30 × 45 cm / 12 × 18″
• 40 × 60 cm / 16 × 24″
• 60 × 90 cm / 24 × 36″
• Unframed, or framed in black, white or wood

Print Details

Archival matte paper, 250gsm (110lb), acid-free and FSC-certified — off-white, uncoated. Unframed prints ship rolled in a protective tube.

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