Staircase from Eyrecourt Castle

late 17th century

Irish

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Title Staircase from Eyrecourt Castle

Artwork Date late 17th century

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Irish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Elm, oak, and pine

Dimensions Installed: 180 inches × 18 feet (4 m 57.2 cm × 5 m 48.6 cm)

Classification Architecture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 58.259

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Provenance

1670s, commissioned by Colonel John Eyre for Eyrecourt (County Galway, Ireland). 1927, Eyrecourt sale (L. Taylor Auctioneers)

(White, Allom & Company). William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

De Breffny, B. & R. Ffolliott. The Houses of Ireland: Domestic Architecture from the Medieval Castle to the Edwardian Villa. London, 1975, p. 61.

Gantz, I. Signpost to Eyrecourt. Bath, 1975, p. 110, (fig. 8-9 ill.) [mentions Dutch workmanship].

Harbison, P., H. Potterton and J. Sheehy. Irish Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Present. London, 1978, p. 130, (figs. 109 & 125 ill.).

Loeber, R. "Early Classicism in Ireland: Architecture before the Georgian Era," Architectural History 22 (1979): p. 57, (figs. 7a-7b ill.).

Bence-Jones, M. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. London 1988, p. 122 (ill.).

O'Connell. J. & R. Loeber. "Eyrecourt Castle, Co. Galway," Irish Art Review Yearbook (1988): pp. 45-46; (figs. 5-6, 8-11 ill.).

Fitz-Gerald, D. "Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland," Apollo (February 1989): pp. 92-94; p. 93 (ill.).

Banham, J., ed. Encyclopedia of Interior Design, vol. 1. London, 1997, p. 613 (ill.).

Gallagher, B. "William Randolph Hearst and the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 78, nos. 1/2 (2004): p. 57, (figs. 3 & 4 ill.); p. 64.

The Knight of Glin and J. Peill. Irish Furniture: Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union. New Haven & London, 2007, pp. 28-29, 303; (fig. 20 ill.).

Harris, J. Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages. New Haven, 2007.

Cronin, J. "A Gentleman of a Good Family and Fortune: John Eyre of Eyrecourt 1640-1685," Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society v. 60 (2008): p. 88-115.

Mulligan, Kevin V. “The Realm of the Irish Country House.” In Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840. Edited by William Laffan and Christopher Monkhouse with Leslie Fitzpatrick. Chicago, 2015, pp. 97-98 (fig. 1).

Roy, James Charles. "William Randolph Hearst & the Eyrecourt Staircase." Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 69 (2017): 165–194, pp. 166, 173, 190 (ill.).

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Irish, Staircase from Eyrecourt Castle, late 17th century, elm, oak, and pine. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation, Inc., 58.259.