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Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.

An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.

An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

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Erskine Nicol

Images from the collections

Images by Erskine Nicol

Works from the collections

An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.

An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.