prison art / Kilmainham, 1923

Countess Markievicz drawings in album kept by Mary Burke Dowling (and including some of her own sketches). Fronticpiece of the Windsor and Newtown Drawing Book is a title piece "Scenes in Prison". A wash drawing of a cell follows; then signed watercolour of her cell in Kilmainham in 1923 by Mary Bourke-Dowling; another signed scene of a staircase in Kilmainham by the same artist; an unsigned corridor scene watercolour probably by the same; a pencil sketch of the dormitory, in North Dublin Union in 1923, by the same; a watercolour by the same of 8 cells doors - 2 rows of 4 - in Kilmainham; a penal sketch by the same of the chapel in Kilmainham; an Easter card by MB-D sent by her from Kilmainham in 1923; a watercolour "The Island Termonfeckin 1936" probably by the same; pencil sketches by Countess for caricatures of Free State Ministers incl. Blythe, Fitzgerald Walsh, O'Higgins, Cosgrave, Collins, Mulcahy; Free State Freatis no. 2 pencil sketch of O'Higgins for by Countess; 5 pencil sketches of MO-B by Countess towards Childers memorial leaflet (poem and sketch) by her, a copy of which is also posted in; an untitled pencil sketch by Countess, probably a draft poster or magazine drawing.;