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Portrait of Felix Edward Hackett

The digital reproduction of the Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society Volume 2, for the years 1878 to 1881.

The digital reproduction of the Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society Volume 1, for the years 1877 to 1882.

The Charter of Victoria Creating an Executive Council. An original counterpart copy, 1866.

The Charter of George II Giving the Society a Corporate Status Under Law. An original counterpart copy, 1750.

Depicting the Society's present headquarters at Ballsbridge. One of a set of four, including Ballsbridge, Leinster House, Hawkins Street & Grafton…

Depicting the Society's former headquarters at Leinster House. One of a set of four, including Ballsbridge, Leinster House, Hawkins Street & Grafton…

Depicting the Society's former headquarters at Hawkins Street. One of a set of four, including Ballsbridge, Leinster House, Hawkins Street & Grafton…

Depicting the Society's former headquarters at Grafton Street. One of a set of four, including Ballsbridge, Leinster House, Hawkins Street & Grafton…

The Robert Boyle medal awarded by the RDS for scientific excellence.

An oval form gold medal with silver and gold suspension loop from which are a burgandy-coloured ribbon with three bars and a pin, the obverse with…

A George III, baluster-shaped coffee pot, with scrolled spout and handle fretted with scrolling acanthus leaves, beading, the hinged domed top with…

Sketch of the facade of Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin, with a partial view of the rotundas of the National Library and the National Museum.…

Semi-abstract sculpture of two cellos standing back-to-back.

A balloon-shaped vessel of ebonised oak, the neck with a double rim.

The subject modelled after Bacon’s self-portrait triptych which he made in 1972.

Thomas Kane McClintock Bunbury, 2nd Baron Rathdonnell (1848-1929), Anglo-Irish peer, British Army officer and politician, President of the Society…

The subject depicted half length, directed slightly to the left, her face in frontal profile, seated in a chair, wearing a blue jacket, signed l.r. D…

The subject depicted seated at his harpsichord, wearing a red suit, signed and dated l.l. Micheal O Nuallain 99.

Portrait bust of John Joly, geologist. Signed OLIVER SHEPPARD RHA 1930 and entitled JOHN JOLY.

The subject modelled as a young woman, hair tied back in a bun, wearing a dress, the reverse inscribed and dated 1903.

A carved head of a walrus, the head of soapstone, the tusks of scrimshaw.

The subject modelled as a young girl, a blanket wrapped around her, standing beside a tree stump, signed and dated J H Foley Sculp London 1842.

The subject modelled as a young man, wearing a floral crown, head cast down, both arms truncated at the shoulder, both legs truncated below the knee,…

After an Ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Greek statue in bronze thought to have been commissioned sometime between 230 and 220 BC by King Attalus…

The subject modelled standing, wearing a coat, waistcoat & scarf, head cast down, holding an open book in his left hand. The base inscribed Goldsmith…

A tabletop statuette after John Michael Rysbrack's statue of Sir Anthony van Dyck. The subject modelled as the artist standing with an artist’s…

A tabletop sculpture after John Greenshield's public monument to Sir Walter Scott in George Square, Edinburgh (1834-8, completed after Greenshield's…

Moritz Geiss, after a model by August Karl Eduard Kiss. Modelled as a female warrior astride a horse being attacked by a panther, inscribed M. GEISS…

A view of the Giant’s Causeway from a westerly direction.

The subject depicted in bust length, facing right with head inclined to front, wearing a lace-trimmed blue coat and hat, a landscape beyond, within a…

Painting en griseille, depicting Ceres and Triptolemus (Science and Agriculture).

Depicts a gentleman bust leangth, wearing a black doublet and a white ruff.

Depicts two dead game birds on a table.

The subject depicted three-quarter length, standing, directed right, face in three-quarter profile, wearing an orange dress, white chemise and blue…

Depicts Jacob sleeping in a woodland in the lower right foregound, with angels in the background.

Depicts a winged angel, wearing a white robe, to the right of the composition, his head cast downwards to St. Peter, who wears a blue robe and yellow…

St. Paul depicted to the right of the composition, wearing a green robe and red mantle, standing on a low plinth, right arm extended, preaching in a…

An extensive mountainous and wooded landscape, with soldiers leaving a burning town.

An extensive mountainous and wooded landscape, with soldiers bearing away the spoils.

Conor Swail on Count Me In, winners of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup of Ireland, holding the Aga Khan trophy at Dublin in 2022.

Comdt. John Ledingham on Kilbaha, winner of The Nations
Cup at Dublin in 1997.

Eddie Macken on Boomerang

Diana Conolly-Carew on Barrymore, The International
Grand Prix of Ireland winners for Ireland, Dublin, 1966.

Mrs Barrett on Reilly at Dublin in 1933.

Comdt. Ged O’Dwyer on Limerick Lace, for Ireland, winners of the International Jumping Competition in Dublin, 1934.

The Galway Blazers at the Inter-Hunt Competition at Dublin in 1927.

The first winners of the Dublin Horse Show 'lepping' competition in 1868.

Horse Show Heroes: A History of Show Jumping at The Dublin Horse Show

From the introduction of some the world’s earliest jumping courses to its…

National Heritage Week 2023 Exhibition Video

The RDS digital reproduction of Divinarum institutionum libri septem by L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius, in a Renaissance manuscript written in…

The digital reproduction of the manuscript petitions book of the Dublin Society, for the years 1761 to 1762.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript treasurer's book of the Dublin Society, for the years 1731 to 1739.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript register and book of letters of the Dublin Society, for the years 1731 to 1736.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript book of minutes of the Dublin Society, for the years 1758 to 1761.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript book of minutes of the Dublin Society, for the years 1752 to 1755.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript book of minutes of the Dublin Society, for the years 1750 to 1757.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript book of minutes of the Dublin Society, for the years 1741 to 1746.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript register and book of minutes of the Dublin Society, for the years 1733 to 1741.

The digital reproduction of the manuscript register and book of minutes of the Dublin Society, for the years 1731 to 1733.

Portrait bust of Henry Francis Montgomery Stuart, Irish novelist.

A semi-abstract representation of Donn Cúailgne (The Brown Bull of Cooley) from the mythological Irish epic An Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid…

The subject modelled partially seated, head cast downwards, reading a book.

The subject modelled head cast down to proper right, her proper right arm reaching for an arrow from a quiver carried on proper left shoulder, her…

The subject modelled wearing a chiton, holding the excess folds of the fabric in her left hand, a staff in her proper right hand, her hair tied with a…

The subject modelled standing, wearing classical robes, hair in a chignon, holding wheatsheaves and fruit in her proper left hand, on an oval marble…

A figure of Eve, The subject modelled as a nude female holding an uneaten apple in her proper right hand, long hair draped over her back, seated on a…

The subject modelled as a gentleman standing, wearing a turban and robes, his arms loosely crossed across his body holding a scroll in his proper…

The subjects modelled partially draped, reclining on rocks, surmounted by bunches of grapes and vine leaves, the figure of Ino with outstretched…

Modelled as a seated discus thrower, resting on a cloak, with a title plaque inscribed DISCOBOLUS M. KESSELS ROME 1826 THE BEQUEST OF MRS ANNE D…

Vignettes of people and events at the Dublin Horse Show.

An Italianate landscape depicting a man sleeping on rocks beside a river, observed at his proper left side by a figure holding a staff; to his proper…

An Italianate landscape, with two figures by a weir in the foreground, one seated, the other, a Roman solider, standing and holding a spear and…

Depicts Sir Humphrey and his trainers in a paddock with ten of his hunters, all prize winners at the Horse Shows of 1902 and 1903. Signed and dated…

The subject depicted full length, directed to proper right, seated by a river and looking at his reflection, with a cherub to his proper right and two…

Landscape with a castle.

Still life with four dead gamebirds. A grey partridge hangs by its proper right leg above a falconry perch, from which a rufter hood hangs, and a…

Seascape, with two two-mast sailboats in a stormy sea; positioned centre, the near boat, with mainsail lowered and headsail raised, tows a lifeboat…

Still life with a dead hare suspended by its right hind leg, its head resting on a stone ledge; to left of the composition, an (unidentified) object…

Genre painting of a blind beggarwoman and a child. To centre right, a beggarwoman seated on a low, stone wall, directed front, head slightly inclined…

Pastoral landscape at sunset. Positioned centre, a shepherd girl carrying a faggot in her proper left hand converses with a herdsman wearing a…

In the form of crouching fox on a rockwork base, set with red glass eyes, the turned wooden base applied with a silver shield engraved ROYAL DUBLIN…

With domed foot and tapering stem engraved with two wheatear bands, the bowl with twin scroll handles, also with chased wheatear bands at the base and…

Inscribed 1895 IRISH POLLED ABERDEEN-ANGUS ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP BEST BULL, with a further inscription WON OUT IN 1897 BY A.J. OWEN ESQ. WITH HIS…

The campana-shaped body with two scrolling handles on a spreading foot, chased overall with foliage and flowers, further chased on one side with a…

An Irish parcel-gilt silver model of a hunting horn, the curved cylindrical body engraved with flutes, with silver gilt bands, the rim engraved with…

The ovoid body on a stepped, domed base, the lower body chased with foliage, the shoulder chased with a band of trailing foliage and palmettes on a…

In the form of a cow, on a wood plinth with applied silver plaque inscribed ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY SPRING SHOW PERPETUAL CHALLENGE TROPHY PRESENTED BY…

Realistically modelled as The Warwick Vase, with beaded shell and dart rim, the campana-form body chased with lion’s pelts and applied in high…

The irregular-form body supported on a trumpet-shaped stem with two Celtic scroll handles, the detachable cover with a spire and Celtic scroll finial,…

Portrait of General Charles Vallancey (Ca.1725-1812), British military surveyor, cartographer and Chief Engineer of Ireland, Vice-President of the…

Portrait bust of Sir Richard John Griffith (1784-1878), geologist, surveyor and RDS Mining Engineer (1812–39), noted for his; the subject modelled…

Portrait bust of Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907), (British) Royal Navy officer and arctic explorer; the subject modelled to proper…

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