Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?
The nineteenth-century artist, Erskine Nicol (1825–1904) is well known for his anecdotal and humorous paintings of Irish themes. This article analyses one of his larger oils to show that on occasion he attempted a more serious representation of the rural Irish figure which asks for empathy as oppose...
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Taylor & Francis
2017
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45751/ |