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Title: The Old Royal Hotel and Posting Establishment, Belfast: Side View and Garden. Corner of Donegall Place and Donegal Square North (1920)
Object Name: Drawing
Maker: Fry, William Arthur 1865 - 1936 (Primary maker)
Fry, William Arthur 1865 - 1936 (artist)
Date Made: 1920
1920
Description: note on mount stating that 'Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns who became Lord Chancellor of England was born in Donegall Place in 1819
Materials: watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number: BELUM.P242.1920
Copyright: National Museums NI

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