05.11.2024, 18:30 P.M.
Two Cities, Two Maps: John Rocque’s London and Dublin compared by Dr John Montague, Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture Art and Design, at the American University of Sharjah, and co-author of John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian City (2010).
This is the fifth talk in the Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council's talk series, Depicting Dublin: understanding Dublin’s architecture, urban morphology and social history through maps, prints, drawings and photographs.
ABSTRACT: John Rocque’s 1756 four-sheet Exact Survey is well-known to a Dublin audience. Ten years before he finished his Dublin map, Rocque made a much larger 24-sheet map of London, for which he is far more widely known. In this talk I will look at these two maps, how they came to be made, how they compare, and what they tell us about these two European cities at the middle of the eighteenth century’
BIOGRAPHY: Dr John Montague is Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture Art and Design, at the American University of Sharjah, in the UAE. He is co-author of John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian City (2010), The Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume 4: Architecture 1600–2000 (2014) and Vikings to Victorians: a history of Dublin Castle to 1850 (2022), which won the History and Heritage prize at the 2023 Listowel Writers Week. He is completing a book on the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, which will be published in conjunction with Dublin City Council Heritage Office in 2025, and a book on Rocque’s London map, which will published by the London Topographical Society in 2026.
IMAGE: Detail from John Rocque’s Exact Survey of Dublin, published in London in 1756.
Talks take place at 6.30pm in the Irish Georgian Society's City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2. Talk subscribers can also choose to watch the talks live online. A zoom link to watch the talk live will be issued the day before each talk. Additionally, all talk subscribers will be issued with a recording of the talk the day after, which they can watch for a further two-week period.
Attendance at the talk is recognised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland as formal CPD (1 point per hour long talk). The IGS will issue CPD certs at the end of the talk series.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This talk is part of the Irish Georgian Society's Conservtion Education Programme which is supported by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Society also wishes to thank Dublin City Council's Heritage Office for partnering on this talk series, and The Heritage Council for their support of the Irish Georgian Society.
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