Robert Day ( born Robert Day ; 1836 - 1914 , an Irish antiquarian and photographer who collected a collection of Irish antiquities and left a large number of photographs of views of the city of Cork. Cork city at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries .
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| Robert Day | |
| Date of Birth | 1836 |
| Place of Birth | Ireland |
| Date of death | 1914 |
| Citizenship |  Ireland |
| Occupation | antiquary , photographer |
Biography
Robert Day was an insistent collector of antiques, constantly searching for new exhibits in his collection. He participated in a well-established family business for the production of saddlery including a sports store, well known among fans of Cork fishing. The Scott family, from which his wife, Rebecca, originated, owned an extensive hardware business in King Street (now McCurtain). They lived on Myrtle Hill on the outskirts of Cork until 1906 , then on Patricks Hill.
He was president of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Cork from 1894 to 1914 . Gathered a huge collection of antiquities of Ireland. This collection was presented at an auction in 1915 and its parts formed the basis of the Irish sections of the archaeological collections of John Hunt ( Hunt Museum , Limerick ), the Birmingham Archaeological Society, the Ulster Museum (Eng.) And the National Museum of Ireland , Dublin [1] . The Department of Archeology at the University of Cork University is trying to trace the further movement of the exhibits of the Robert Day collection, which were sold at this auction.
The picture is used in the design of the book "Forgotten Cork" (2004) [1]
Robert Day was an amateur photographer . The earliest of his photographs are dated to the 1860s ; he continued to shoot until his death. The pictures well convey the atmosphere of the epoch and contain various types of Cork, now for various reasons not existing. Today these photographs are part of the Day's collection, in which there are photographs of his son William (“Willy”) Day Day Tottenam (1874-1965) and grandson Alec (1902-1980). Another of his grandsons was the famous writer , artist , woodcut master Robert Gibbings (1889-1958).
Literature
- Rynne, Colin. Forgotten Cork: Photographs from the Day Collection / Ed: Rynne, Colin; Editor-Wighan, Billy; Photographer: Day, Robert. - Grantham: Your Books, 2004. - 140 p. - ISBN 1-903464-56-0 .
Notes
- ↑ The site of the Hunter Museum (Eng.) At the University of Glasgow also contains a part of the sold out collection: The Robert Day Collection . "Gla.Ac.uk". The appeal date is May 20, 2015.