• Reference code  IE/UCD/SC/WAT
• Title Beranger Watercolours
• Dates  [1700s–1820s?]
• Level of description Fonds
• Extent 39 items

Creator Gabriel Beranger (1729-1817)

Biographical History

• Gabriel Beranger was born in the Netherlands. He moved to Dublin in 1750.
• During the 1760s Beranger sketched ruins and standing buildings and other sites of interest in the Dublin area.
• He exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1763 to 1768, contributing landscapes, sea pieces, and ‘medleys’.
• In 1773 Beranger and another artist, Angelo Bigari, made a tour of western Ireland in 1779.

Source of Acquisition Purchased by UCD in 1968-9.

• 39 18^th century watercolour drawings, done by or for Gabriel Beranger, and known as the ‘Beranger’ watercolours.
• The subjects of the drawings are antiquarian sites containing general views and details of, principally, churches, abbeys and castles.
• There is a small amount of pre-historic subjects.

Access The materials in this collection are available by appointment only to research students, teaching staff and scholars.

Research students should have a letter of recommendation from their supervisor.

Reproduction Photocopying or digital photographing of this material is not permitted.

Language English

Finding Aid Descriptive list

Allied Materials Gabriel Beranger material is also held at the National Library of Ireland and the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.

• View the collection online on the UCD Digital Library.
• Find information on Gabriel Beranger in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (UCD only).