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A Welch peasantry

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A series of ten prints showing the Welsh men, women and children in a variety of settings, mostly in rural landscapes with trees and wooden fences.

  • Author: Taylor, T. (Thomas), active 1804.
  • Title: A Welch peasantry / sketched from life by T. Taylor.
  • Published: [London] : Pubd. May 1, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London, [1 May 1804]

Catalog Record 

724 804T

Acquired September 2018

Authentic account of all the fairs in England and Wales

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  • Author: Owen, W. (William), -1793.
  • Uniform Title: [Authentic account of all the fairs in England and Wales]
  • Title: An authentic account published by the King’s authority, of all the fairs in England and Wales : as they have been settled to be held since the alteration of the stile. Noting likewise the commodities which each of the said fairs is remarkable for furnishing.
  • Edition: The second edition.
  • Published: London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-street, and R. Goadby, at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, MDCCLIX [1759]

Catalog Record

62 759 Ow97

Acquired April 2017

Sketchbook recording a tour in North Wales

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Cover: Sketchbook containing pen and wash views recording a tour in North Wales

Selection 1: Sketchbook containing pen and wash views recording a tour in North Wales

Selection 2: Sketchbook containing pen and wash views recording a tour in North Wales

Album containing drawings of castles, ruins, abbeys, landscapes, roads, and bridges drawn by the artist while on tour in northern Wales in August and September 1790, the year before her marriage. Most of the drawings are titled with names of places visited are listed on the front fly leaf. On the verso of the fifth drawing, sometime after 1826, the artist has written a short piece entitled “Recollections” in which she compares traveling in Wales in 1790 to the last trip she took in 1826.

  • Artist: Graham, Elizabeth Susanna Davenport, 1762 or 3-1844.
  • Title: [Sketchbook containing pen and wash views recording a tour in North Wales].
  • Created: North Wales : August & Septr. 1790.

Catalog Record

Acquired January 2012