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Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity
Title
Picturesque views on the River Wye : from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow : with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art, in its vicinity / by Samuel Ireland ...
Publication
London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and T. Egerton, Whitehall, 1797
Physical Description
xii, 159, [1] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary tree calf. Bookplate: James Shuter.
Notes
The plates are aquatints, printed in sepia, except for the portrait of John Kyrle (a line engraving).
Includes woodcut tail-pieces.
Last page is blank.
The frontispiece is a map of the "Course of the River Wye from its source to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Partial contents
Plates (from list on pages xi-xii): Source of the Wye, Plinlimmon Hill
Nanerth Rocks
Rhaidr-Gwy
Builth
Market at Aberystwith
Glasebury Bridge, &c.
Hay, Brecknockshire
Hay, castle
Clifford Castle
Bradwardine, Herefordshire
Hereford
Ross from Ashwood
Market house, &c. Ross
Portrait of John Kyrle
Wilton Castle
Goodrich Castle
Simmond's Rock, &c.
Monmouth, from Hadnock
Monnow Bridge
Remains of Monmouth Castle, &c.
Monmouth Priory
Monmouth, from a neighbouring hill
Rhaglan Castle
St. Briavals'
Llandogar
Tintern Abbey
Interior of ditto
Chepstow Castle and bridge
Chepstow, &c. from Persfield
Chepstow Castle, from below the bridge
Red Rocks.
References
English short title catalogue, N34299
Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, page 271
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 544
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Aquatints.
Engravings.
Woodcuts.
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Great Britain England London,
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