This painted photo of Dublin's Phoenix Park is identified as B. & R's "Camera" Series No. 592 -- British Manufacture. Inland postage was 1/2d. and foreign was 1d.
The monument in the center is the Wellington Testimonial, a 205-foot obelisk commemorating the victories of the Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic wars.
Phoenix Park itself is best known to history buffs for the Phoenix Park Murders: "the assassination in 1882 of the second and third in rank in the British Dublin Castle government of Ireland by the "Irish National Invincibles.'"
Do you have any further information about this postcard -- including historical details about the image, etc.? Put it in the comments, please!
Anyone may feel free to use cards from my turn-of-the-century postcard collection as long as they remember to credit me (Gail Hapke) and Scribal Terror as the source.
Very cool.
I thought for a second that said 'Wellington Testicle' but realized that must have been misidentified. Phallically I mean.
Posted by: MC | March 10, 2008 at 03:21 PM