Photograph from the La Hune exhibition--Reading room of the National Library, Dublin

On verso in pencil: "National Library | Cc Hypogée de pensée | Author de moi, | momies compartimentées, embaumées | dans des aromates de mots"

Douane Centrale stamp on verso

Large reading room with high ceilings and elaborate classical architectural details, including carved panels, decorative molding, and a frieze depicting figures holding garlands. The room contains rows of long wooden tables equipped with slanted bookstands, where numerous people are seated and reading. Two archways, flanked by bookshelves and topped with decorative pediments, lead to another section of the building. A gallery with turned balusters runs along the upper level. Signs reading “Silence is requested” are placed on the tables.

This item is part of the Poetry Collection's James Joyce Collection. http://library.buffalo.edu/pl/collections/jamesjoyce/catalog

1949

23.3 x 18.8

black and white photograph

15.29

LIB-PC004

3/12/2013

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