Armagh Robinson Library holds an impressive group of over 4,400 prints known as The Rokeby Collection.
It is one of the great art collections in Northern Ireland and was left to the Library by its founder Archbishop Richard Robinson, first Baron Rokeby of Armagh (1708-1794).
The Rokeby Collection is a rare example of an intact eighteenth-century print collection. The prints are particularly significant as the majority have not been pasted and bound into albums, as is common in other collections of the period.
The collection includes masterpieces of printmaking produced across Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, including prints by Goltzius, Mellan, Nanteuil, Piranesi, and Hogarth.
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| Object number | Title | Periodical Title | Related people | Place | Date | Imprint | Marks, Inscriptions, Bookplates | Dimensions & Pagination | Object type | Content Description | Image |
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| Object number | Title | Periodical Title | Related people | Place | Date | Imprint | Marks, Inscriptions, Bookplates | Dimensions & Pagination | Object type | Content Description | Image |
| P00187955.x | Tomb of Cardinal Richelieu, rear right | Bernard Picart , Engraver; Fran?ois Girardon, Sculptor | [s.l.] | 1693 - 1697 | Lettering: Illustrissimo Ecclesiae Principi Carolo Mauritio Le Tellier. Remensium Archi-Epsicopo [...] sepulchri Richeliani in marmoris visceribus arte mentis et manus inventi, exacti, et in Templo Sorbonico Parisiis erecti anno M.DC.XCV. [...] Franciscus Girardon sculptor Regius; Lettering: F. Girardon invenit et fecit C.P.R. / B. Picart ex. Marmore Delineavit et sculp | 39.8 x 43.8 cm | Interior of a church, with rear right view of Cardinal Richelieu's tomb, sculpted by Girardon: effigy of the Cardinal reclining on a stone slab, supported by Religion, while Science is weeping at his feet, two putti holding coat of arms | ||||
| P00188343.6 | Bridge of Janiculum | Marcus Cristoph [Marco] Sadeler,, Publisher (1614 - after 1650); Aegidius/Giles Sadeler II, Engraver (c. 1570 - 1629) | Prague (Czech Republic) | 1606 | Lettering: A. Ponte Janicolense cosi detto dal colle Janicolo alle cui vvadici ne e vicino chiamavasi anco antichamente ponte d’Aurelio, sia dalla via, o porta Aurelia. fu edificato secondo alcuni da Antonino Pio. distrutto poi per le guere lungo tempo ritenne il nome di ponte rotto. insino foss da Papa Sisto.IV. il cui nome hoggidi serva ristorato .B. cupola della chiesa di : Pietro in Vaticano .C. Hospitale di Papa Sisto.V. D. Mollini nel Tevere | 17.7 x 28 cm avg. size Mount size | |||||
| P00100572x | Collection of prints: Christ and the Apostles with St Paul; collection of 244 portraits of popes ranging from Saint Peter to Clemens XI; set of 23 illustrations from 'An Account of his Excellence Roger Earl of Castelmaine's Embassy from his sacred Majesty James the II' | Gerard Segers (Artist), after; Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert (Engraver); Martinus van den Enden; [s.n.] (Publishers); Giovanni Battista Lenardi (Artist), after; Arnold van Westerhout (Engraver); Philip Michael Camers, after; Ciro Ferri (Artists); Andrea Cornely (Engraver) | Antwerp (Belgium) | 1601 - 1687 | Bookplate: Armorial Archbishop Richard Robinson, without mitre and ribbons, Inside front board | 8º Book size; 2 volumes Number of objects | Book of prints | ||||
| P001144967 | Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne, ou, Description exacte des Palais de La Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des Seigneurs & des Gentilshommes du dit Royaume. Le tout dessiné sur les lieux & gravé ... Planches, ou l'on voit aussi les Armes des Seigneurs & Gentilhommes ... | Johannes Kip (Engraver); Joseph Smith (Publisher) | London (UK) | 1724 | A Londres : Chez Joseph Smith, Marchand Libraire proche d'Exeter Exchange, a l'Ensigne d'Inigo Jones, dans le Strand, MDCCXXIV [1724] | Bookplate: Armorial Thomas Robinson | Folio Book size; 4 volumes Number of objects | Book of prints | |||
| P001144983 | The Ruins of Balbec, Otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria | Robert Wood (Author); Giovanni Battista Borra (Author); Paul Fourdrinier (Engraver); [s.n.] (Publisher) | London (UK) | 1757 | London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year MDCCLVII [1757] | Inscription: 3-10-, Second flyleaf | Folio Book size; [2], 28? , xlvi TBC Book size | Book of prints | |||
| P001145688 | Pacis antesignani, sive, icones legatorum plena potestate intructorum, qui nomine Pontif. Max. imperatoris, regum, et rerum publicarum ad pacem universalem constituendam Monasterium Westphalorum et osnabrugam convenerunt ; aliorumque qui pacificationis negotium promoberunt ; magno studio ad vivum expresæ, per Anselmum van Hulle Gandensem, Celissimi princ. Auriaci nuper pictorem. Caelo insigniorum hujus AEvi Sculptorum | Anselmus van Hulle (Artist); Pieter de Jode II (Engraver); Philibert Bouttats Senior (Publisher) | Antwerp (Belgium) | 1691 | Antverpiae : Philibertus Bouttats Senior, de novo multis additis Iconibus edidit, 1691. | Bookplate: Armorial Archbishop Robinson, with mitre and ribbons, Inside front board; Inscription: No 48, Inside front board | Folio Book size; TBC | Book of prints | |||
| P001186408 | B. Engelmarus | Raphael, II Sadeler, Engraver; Matthaeus Raderus, Author; Johann Matthias Kager, Artist | Antwerp | 1615 | No 44 of 60 | Hermit Engelmarus is clubbed to death by man who hoped to find treasure in the shelter | |||||
| P001392979 | Miscellany Prints (Cheminees (Lepautre, c.1651). Facciate delli palazzi più cospicui della città di Napoli (Petrini, 1718) Vedute delle Antichita della Citta di Pozzuoli (Petrini, 1718) Facciate delle Chiese più cospicue della città di Napoli (Petrini, 1718)) | [s.n.], Publisher; Jean Le Pautre, Engraver; Paolo Petrini, Engraver | [s.l.] | 1650 - 1720 | Bookplate: Armorial Thomas Robinson | ||||||
| P001393150 | Aula Veneris Sive Varietas Foeminine Sexus Diversarum Europae Nationum | Wenceslaus Hollar, Engraver | London | 1644 | |||||||
| P001803065 | Christ's Charge to Peter | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Christ's Charge to Peter. John Chap: 21. Grave'd by Sim. Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal Palace of Hampton-Court in the Year 1701 / Christus Petro Ovium curam committit. Joan. Cap. XXI. Aeri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam Ann: MDCCVII & excudit | . 26.2 x 36 cm | St Peter holding a key and kneeling before Christ, next to Peter, the other disciples, standing, a flock of sheep behind Christ. To the left, the bank of a lake and a boat, in the background, a landscape with buildings and figures. Coat of arms in lower margin | ||||
| P001803066 | The lame man healed by Peter & John | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Grave'd by Sim: Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal-Palace of Hampton-Court, in the year 1707 / AEri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael. Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam. Ann: MDCCVII. & excudit. | 25.9 x 36.5 cm | Arcade with ornately decorated pillars, with St Peter and St John standing beside a lame man. Behind and to the left and right, a crowd of onlookers, among them another lame man with crutch | ||||
| P001803067 | Elymas the Sorcerer Struck with Blindness | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Grave'd by Sim: Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal-Palace of Hampton-Court, in the year 1707 / AEri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael. Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam. Ann: MDCCVII & excudit. | 26.2 x 36.5 cm | St Paul, holding a book, gestures towards Elymas, now struck blind, a crowd is watching, two of whom hold fasces, and, from a raised seat, Sergius Paulus | ||||
| P001803068 | The Miraculous Draught of Fishes | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Grave'd by Sim: Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal-Palace of Hampton-Court, in the year 1707 / AEri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael. Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam. Ann: MDCCVII & excudit. | 25.9 x 36.6 cm | Christ and five disciples in two boats on a lake, each boat full of fish, two of the disciples hauling in a net, on the bank in the foreground, three herons, in the background, a crowd on another bank, buildings and hills | ||||
| P001803069 | Paul Preaching at Athens | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Grave'd by Sim: Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal-Palace of Hampton-Court, in the year 1707 / AEri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael: Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam. Ann: MDCCVII & excudit | 26.3 x 36.5 cm | St Paul, standing on steps, preaching to a crowd; in the background, classical temples, buildings and statues | ||||
| P001803070 | Paul and Barnabas at Lystra | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Grave'd by Sim: Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal-Palace of Hampton-Court, in the year 1707 / AEri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael. Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam. Ann: MDCCVII. & excudit. | 25.9 x 35.9 cm | St Paul and St Barnabas before a crowd, many of whom wearing wreaths; a figure with a raised axe is about to sacrifice a bull; to the right, a wreathed male holds a ram by its horns; in the centre, two children, one holding a box, the other playing on two pipes; in the background, classical temples, buildings and statues, including one of Mercury | ||||
| P001803071 | The Death of Ananias | Simon Gribelin, Engraver; Raphael, Artist | London | 1707 | Lettering: Grave'd by Sim: Gribelin from the Carton of Raphael d'Urbin, in the Royal-Palace of Hampton-Court, in the year 1707 / AEri incidit Sim: Gribelin ad Tabulam Raphael. Urbin: in Regia de Hampton-Court asservatam. Ann: MDCCVII. & excudit. | 26 x 36.5 cm | Ananias falling to the ground, with astonished onlookers, on a raised platform in the centre, St Peter and other apostles gesturing to the crowd, curtain behind the apostles, and to the left a landscape visible through a window | ||||
| P001803871 | Portrait of Léonor Goyon de Matignon, Bishop of Lisieux | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver; R. des Antonin, Intermediate draughtsman | [s.l.] | 1650 - 1655 | Lettering: R. Pater Antoninus ad vivum delineavit / Nanteuil Sculp. / AW; Inscription: De Matignon Euesque de Lisieux, Recto; Collector's mark: AW, Recto | 31.7 x 25.2 cm; 41.3 x 35.6 cm | Portrait of Léonor Goyon de Matignon, bust in oval on plinth, turned to the left, looking at viewer, in clerical dress, wearing cross and biretta, submounted by coat of arms | ||||
| P00180388x | Portrait of François de Vandosme, Duc de Beaufort et Pair de France | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver; Jean Nocret, Artist; Jean Le Blond I, Publisher | [s.l.] | 1648 - 1650 | Collector's mark: AW, Recto; Lettering: Nocroit Pinxit / se vendent chez le Blond avec privilege du Roy / Nantueil Sculpebat / AW; Lettering: François de Vandosme Duc de Beaufort et Pair de France; Inscription: Fils de Cesar Duc de Vandarme [...] Candie L'Annee 1669, Mount; Inscription: [French text], Recto; Inscription: 30, Verso | 42.2 x 33.7 ; 49.7 x 42.8 cm | Portrait of the Duke of Beaufort, three-quarter length, turned to the left, looking at the viewer, leaning on helmet, wearing armour and holding baton in his hands, border decorated with palm leaves and laurels | ||||
| P001803944 | Portrait of Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris | Robert Nanteuil, Artist | [s.l.] | 1663 | Collector's mark: AW, Recto; Inscription: D, Verso; Lettering: R. Nanteüil ad vivum Pingebat Sculpebat et excudebat Cum privilegio Regis 1663 | 59.3 x 44.9 cm; 49.7 x 42.1 cm | Portrait of Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, bust, turned to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing clerical dress and insignia of the Order of the Saint-Esprit, in lettered oval frame, with star in each corner | ||||
| P001803952 | Portrait of Michael Amelot, Archbishop of Tours | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver | [s.l.] | 1675 | Lettering: Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat C.P.R. 1675 / AH; Lettering: Offerebat Carolus Amelot; Collector's mark: AW, Recto; Inscription: D, Verso | 51.6 x 43.4 cm; 62.3 x 45.4 cm | Portrait of Michel Amelot, bust, turned to the right, looking at viewer, wearing clerical dress and cross, in lettered oval frame | ||||
| P001803960 | Portrait of Charles-Maurice le Tellier, Cardinal | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver | [s.l.] | 1672 | Lettering: Car. Maur. Le Tellier Archiep. Dux Remens. L Par Fran. S. Sedis Apost. Legat. Natus; Lettering: Offerebat humillillum Seruus / Josephus Brunel 1672.; Collector's mark: AW, Recto; Lettering: Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat 1672; Inscription: D, Verso | 61.8 x 45 cm; 51 x 42.8 cm | Portrait of Charles-Maurice le Tellier, bust, turned to the left, looking the viewer, in clerical dress with cross around the neck, in lettered oval frame | ||||
| P001803979 | Portrait of Simon Arnauld, statesman | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver; Gaspardus & Claudius Garrot, Publisher | Paris | 1675 | Lettering: Offerebant Gaspardus et Claudius Garrot Parisini / Nanteuil ad viuum ping. et sculpebat cum privil. Regis 1675; Lettering: Simon Arnald Dom. de Pomponne Regi a sanctoribus consil. secret. et mandat.; Inscription: D, Verso; Collector's mark: AW, Recto | 51 x 42.5 ; 58.5 x 44.6 cm | Portrait of statesman Simon Arnauld, bust, turned to the left, looking at the viewer, wearing dark embroidered costume and lace cravat, in lettered oval frame | ||||
| P001803987 | Portrait of André le Fèvre d'Ormesson, French magistrate | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver | [s.l.] | 1634 | Lettering: R. Nantueil ad vivum faciebat 1654; Collector's mark: AW, Recto; Lettering: Andreas le Fèvre D. D'Omesson d'Amboile & Regia Sanctioribus Consiliis | 44.2 x 36 cm; 32.5 x 24.5 cm | Portrait of André le Fèvre d'Ormesson, bust in oval on pedestal, turned to the left and looking at viewer, white hair, moustache and beard, wearing skullcap and magistrate robe | ||||
| P001803995 | Portrait of Auvry Claudius, Bishop of Coutances | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver | [s.l.] | 1660 | Lettering: R. Nanteuil ad vinum faciebat. 1660.; Lettering: Claudius Auvry Episcopus Constantiensis S. Capellae Regiae Thesavarius | 31.7 x 25.2 cm; 42.1 x 35.3 cm | Portrait of Auvry Claudius, bust, turned to the left, wearing clerical dress, cross on chain, in oval frame submounted by coat of arms | ||||
| P001804002 | Portrait of François de Nesmond, Bishop of Bayeux | Robert Nanteuil, Engraver | [s.l.] | 1667 | Lettering: Franciscus de Nesmond Episcopus Baiocensis; Lettering: R. Nanteuil ad vivum Ping. et sculpebat 1667; Collector's mark: AW, Recto | 33 x 26 ; 43.7 x 35.6 cm | Portrait of François de Nesmond, bust, turned to the left, in clerical dress, in lettered oval frame submounted by coat of arms |