The Leviathan of Parsontown
illustration: Michael Hanna with Gustave Doré
The Leviathan of Parsontown (Michael Hanna with Gustave Doré). Birr is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. It was formerly called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse. Their’s was the Castle Birr.
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“Destruction of Leviathan”. 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré.
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The Leviathan of Parsontown
Nice work, It must have taken a fair amount of time (and skill) to mask the areas to be colorised and include the castle image. I’d love to see the colorised Doré without Castle BIrr (although, I know that’s the point of your excellent illustration).
It’s just the Doré is such a work on it’s own.
Beautiful.
Thank you! It did indeed take quite some time.
I agree, the Doré is gorgeous. So much of his work is, but this is one of my favorites.
I’ll see if I can dig up my colorised file. If I recall correctly, I didn’t actually colorise the part that the castle would cover up. But if I did I’ll post that for you.
Thanks for reading (and commenting)!
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