Queen Maeve's Grave (Misgaun Maeve), Knocknarea mountain Ireland
Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1877
Materials
Paper
Measurements
158 x 196 mm
Order this imageCollection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781328.10
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Queen Maeve's Grave (Misgaun Maeve), Knocknarea mountain Ireland by Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930). Within elaborate embossed oval. View across lake to hill beyond. Inscribed in black ink on page 'Queen Neave's Grave'. Queen Maeve's Grave (Misgaun Maeve) is located at the summit of Knocknarea mountain, which, at 1,014 feet, dominates the landscape to the west of Sligo. Maeve was the warrior Queen of Connacht in Celtic mythology.
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, Mrs James Doyle Penrose (1859-1930), artist Priscilla Hannah Peckover (1833-1931), artist and writer