UNKLES, Mary (fl.1840-1845) — Cork
Lithographer. Produced John Linehan, Diagrams explanatory of the improved system of converting waste lands to a condition fit for the purposes of agriculture 1843, including plans. Also known for illustrations, etc.
The widow of John Unkles above. After his death she immediately announced that “she intends to carry on the business as heretofore, and feels confident, from her own intimate acquaintance with all its details, and having engaged the services of those who have hitherto wrought in the establishment, that all orders with which she may be favoured in the several branches of lithographic art, shall be executed with the same superiority of style, and promptness of despatch, which has already gained so generous a share of public support” (Southern Reporter, 14 Mar 1840). Subsequently styling herself the ‘Cork Lithographic Engraving & Printing Office’, she acknowledged “with gratitude the very liberal support she has hitherto received, [and] takes leave to announce that, by long experience, and the assistance of most competent artists, her establishment is now in a position to compete with any in the United Kingdom as to elegance of workmanship, expedition and cheapness. At a period when a laudable and patriotic spirit for the cultivation and encouragement of native talent pervades all lovers of the fine arts, M. U., in seeking a continuance of public patronage, solicits attention to the style of work executed at her office, and feels confident of success, as she is determined that no effort shall be wanted to give satisfaction. N.B. — A recent discovery!! Persons possessing copper-plates can have them printed at half the usual charge without out any wear of the plate” (Southern Reporter, 17 Mar 1842). The business was taken over by Jeremiah Callaghan and Timothy John Callaghan in 1845. Possibly to be identified with the Mary Unkles who died at Dunmanway, Co. Cork, in 1876, aged seventy-four.
26 South Mall, Cork — 1840
70 South Mall, next the National Bank, Cork — 1842-1845
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