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25" OSI The formal garden was to the right of the main house but there were shubberies and rockeries all over the estate. so she could be sitting anywhere. Born Augusta Caroline Crofton 16th October 1839, she died 5th September 1928 She would have been 75/76 in 1915.

From her date of birth (16.10.1839) she would have been 75 in 1915.

TCD is working on a Letters of 1916 project, which includes a bunch to/from the Clonbrocks from about this time. For example R.E. Dillon congratulating his mother on her golden wedding anniversary.

I’d kill to see this television series! Do any of you remember it? The ladies of the lens At the Great Exhibition in London of 1851, Lady Augusta Crofton’s father bought her a camera and she never looked back. With Rose Shaw she became one of the earliest photographers in Ireland and starting tonight their work, along with thousands of pictures by their male colleagues, will be featured by RTÉ in a six-part television documentary series on old photographs called “Shadows”. “Lady Augusta Crofton was the first great Irish woman photographer” says Michael O’Connell, producer of the series. “If you think that photography was only invented in 1837 and that she was in action by the very early 1850s that makes her very much part of the pioneers. She was operating a camera less than ten years after what would be reputed to be the first photographs taken in Ireland.” With her wet plate process camera, Augusta, who married into the Dillon family of Clonbrock in East Galway, took over 1,000 photographs which are today in the basement of the National Library [not any more, they’re not!] and God knows how many others as well which are now lost to posterity… (Irish Times, 15 February 1985)

Where are the photographs now Carol? Sounds a terrific TV series!

Hey =) Great photo ! But it's Cologne, not Colone ;-) -- Seen on bighugelabs.com ( ?² )

You're absolutely right. Thanks for the correction.

Historical photography really captures something amazing!

A remarkable building. I particularly like how this image conveys the truly monumental scale of the structure.

This image is also used as the background on our War Cabinet Twitter page www.twitter.com/ukwarcabinet where you can follow the progress of the Second World War in 1940, day by day.

Do you think it possible that this is actually by W K Rogman: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=159-wwp&... University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections#5-2-16

We don't know. We genuinely don't know anything about (K)rogman. If you do, please add the information to our Your Archives wiki: yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Krog... We're currently running a project to collect more information on the war art and artists in our collections.

Yes this is definitely by W.Krogman not W K Rogman. He was a war artist that supplied work to a company based in Cambridge Circus, London during the war who were called War Artists and Illustrators. My father also worked for them and used deliver artwork to a section of the Ministry of Information who,at the time, were based at Senate House, London. Many of the artwoks were bought for PR and Morale purposes, many of them were not bought and were then discarded by War Artists and Illustrators. Luckily my father managed to salvage a few original artworks and I now have several by W.Krogman and also an artist called R.W. Jobson later to work on three British Comic Book Annuals incorporating the character Captain Space Kingley. Hope that helps.

out class !