Giovanni Lanfranco, 'The Last Supper', 1624-1625. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

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Portrait of Irish artist, Thomas Foster (1798-1826), by Moreau from an album of material documenting the artist’s life assembled by Crofton Croker (1798-1854). #Archive Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

According to the hagiographic Golden legend, Pope Leo I, at the end of celebrating a mass, felt momentarily aroused by a woman who had kissed his hand. Ashamed of his sin, he punished himself by cutting of the hand that had been kissed, but the Virgin mercifully restored it. Apparently, this extraordinary healing took place in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, on the precise spot where the Pope used to venerate an icon of the Virgin Advocate.
(Image: Antoniazzo Romano (fl. after 1461, d. 1508/09), 'The Virgin Invoking God to Heal the Hand of Pope Leo I', c.1475. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland)

A study of a figure from the Lewis chess set, from F. W. Burton’s Commonplace Book. #Archive

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), 'Young Woman in White Reading', 1873. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

Photograph of Walter Osborne (1859-1903) in his studio [at 7 St Stephen’s green, Dublin], c.1895. Osborne kept the studio from 1895 to his premature death in 1903; it was subsequently leased by John B. Yeats (1839-1922). Photograph copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland. #Archive

'Tossing pancakes at Shrove-Tuesday', Woodcut by Ebenezer Landells (1808-1860) after Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) Published in : Ireland: its scenery, character, &c. by Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall, Vol. I. London: Hall, Virtue and Co., [c.1843]. CSIA Rare Books collection. (Image © National Gallery of Ireland. #CSIA #Library)

Guercino (1591-1666), 'The Virgin and Child', (for the Madonna del Carmine Presenting a Scapular to a Carmelite, in Cento’s Pinacoteca Civica), c.1615. Photograph copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland. Not for reproduction.

Jack, Cottie and Hooligan outside the Cashlauna Shelmiddy studio, c.1900. Photograph copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland. Not for reproduction. #Yeats #Archive #Sketchbooks

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A photograph by J.M. Synge of a local man with his young son, and donkey, on Inis Meain, county Galway, c.1898. Synge sent the photos to Jack Yeats when he was illustrating Synge’s book 'The Aran Island' (1907). Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland. #Yeats #Archive

Elizabeth White bookplate; designed and hand painted by her sister Mary Cottenham Yeats, c.1900. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland, not for reproduction. #Yeats #Archive

Christmas greetings note from Samuel Beckett to Jack B. Yeats, 21 Dec 1956.
Thomas MacGreevy introduced Yeats and Beckett in the 1930s and they became close friends. This note was sent to Yeats at the Portobello nursing home on what would be his last Christmas; he died March 28th 1957. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland #Yeats #Archive

A photograph of a fisherman and his family in Rye. Part of the Osborne Collection in the Centre for the Study of Irish Art. #Archive

Seagull portiere. Designed by Mary Cottenham Yeats and worked by Lily Yeats at the Dun Emer Guild, Dundrum, [c.1903]. NGI.12247 #Yeats #Archive

Mary Cottenham White’s dance card, 11 April 1889.
Cottie had a full card for the Chiswick School of Art’s annual dance. She kept four dances, including the last, for 17 year old fellow student, and future husband, Jack B. Yeats. #Yeats #Archive #YeatsArchive . Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

[Sailor’s on the pier at Rosses Point, county Sligo]. [c.1900]. Possibly staff of the Sligo Steamship Navigation company, which was owned by the Pollexfens, Jack B. Yeats’s maternal grandparents. #Yeats #Archive.Photograph copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland. Not for reproduction.

The A.B.C of Piracy by Jack B. Yeats. Handmade volume (6 x 4 cm), 28 leaves, with frontispiece watercolour and ink drawing (Theodore on the Pebbly beach). Each following page bears a sequential letter of the alphabet and a word relating to piracy, with small ink illustrations. Yeats was fascinated by pirate stories and wrote several miniature theatre plays for children based on the piracy theme. #Yeats #Archive