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Object Type
Museum number: 1872,0713.538
Title: Object: Traeth Mawr in the Road to Caernarvon from Festinog; Series: Views in Wales: Third set
Description: Plate VI; landscape with a mountain peak in the distance to right seen across a river with herdsmen driving cattle on the near bank, one standing in front of a tree with his dog looking across the water form a hillock to left and ships sailing around the bend in the river which curves around the foothills of the mountain in the distance to left; with title, producer details, publication line and plate number. 1777 Etching and aquatint
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School/style
Production date: 1777
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 227 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 293 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1904,0819.635 and 1864,0213.56. For a related drawing see 1904,0819.26.
Bibliographic references: Gunn 2015 / The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809): a catalogue raisonné (237); Abbey Scenery / Scenery of Great Britain & Ireland in Aquatint & Lithography from the Library of J.R.Abbey (511.30)
Location: Not on display
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Merionethshire; Associated with: Caernarfon; Associated with: Ffestiniog
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,0713.538

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