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Landscape with figures sitting beneath a huge oak tree, split in the centre and a platform wedged within the trunk, said by Welsh legend to contain the body of Howl Sele, a Welsh chieftain, immured by his arch rival Owen Glyndwr; situated within the kitchen garden walls of Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, Bart. at Nannau, near Dolgelle (before falling on 27th July 1813, the day that Colt Hoare sketched the subject); inscription on separate plate below. 1817 Etching on chine collé
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