Lot 117: WALKER'S PILLAR, DERRY, circa 1920-5 Attributed to Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey HRUA HRCA CBE (1894-1977) Signature: Medium: oil on canvas

WALKER'S PILLAR, DERRY, circa 1920-5 Attributed to Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey HRUA HRCA CBE (1894-1977) Signature: Medium: oil on canvas Measure: 46 by 30cm., 18 by 12in. Provenance: Exhibited: Harbour Museum, Derry, May - October 2005, on loan from the present owner Literature: Accompanying this lot is a letter from Dr S. B. Kennedy, Belfast, April 2005, concerning O'Rorke Dickey's probable authorship of the painting, and dating it to the early 1920s. Dickey is known to have often painted views of towns from an elevated position, such as that afforded by the old city walls of Derry in this work. In the foreground is Walker's Pillar, an eighty foot high Doric column erected in 1826 as a memorial to George Walker (1618- 1690), Irish Anglican clergyman and commander. Walker served as joint governor of Londonderry (now Derry) during the 1689 siege by the army of the deposed James II. Under Walker's leadership, the townsfolk held the city for 105 days until help arrived. Walker received the thanks of Parliament and was designated Bishop of Derry. The pillar was destroyed by a bomb blast in the early 1970s.