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Creator:
Batty, Captain (Robert), -1848, ill.
Title:
Welsh scenery / from drawings by Captain Batty.
Published/Created:
London : John Murray, 1823.
Physical Description:
viii, [35] p., [35] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA730 .B38 1823+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Information
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1947627
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates accompanied by unpaged descriptive text.
Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.
Steel engravings by Edward Finden; after Captain Robert Batty.
BAC: British Art Center copy has illustations in duplicate, with proofs before letters and the standard set of plates. Bound in half red calf and marbled boards. Bookplate: L.C. Berger, 1869.
Contents:
Chepstow, from the cliff opposite the town -- Ragland Castle -- Llantony Abbey -- Abergavenny Castle -- Hay -- Bridge at Rahyadergwy -- Valley of the Rheiddol, looking towards the Devil's Bridge -- Devil's Bridge -- Fall of the Rheiddol, near the Devil's Bridge -- Aberystwith and Cardigan Bay -- Welsh Coast near Aberystwith -- Cader Idris -- Harlech -- Harlech Castle -- Vale of Ffestiniog -- View looking towards the Pass of Bedgellart -- Pont-Abey-Glasllynn -- Nantz Mill -- Snowdon, from Llanberris -- Dolbadern Castle -- Snowdon, and Llanberris, from the road to Caernarvon -- Caernarvon Castle -- Eagle Tower, Caernarvon Castle -- Waterfall at Aber -- Conway Castle, from the banks of Conway below the town -- Conway Castle, from the wood opposite -- Rhyddlan Castle -- Denbigh -- Gateway of Denbigh Castle -- Llangellen -- View on the Dee, from Llangollen Bridge -- Valle Crucis Abbey -- Llangwast, or Valle Crucis Abbey, West Side -- Aqueduct over the Dee, called Pont-y-Cyssyltan -- Wrexham.
Subject Terms:
Berger, L. C. -- Bookplate, 1869.
Davison, Thomas -- Printer.
Landscape -- Wales.
Murray, John -- Publisher.
Steel engraving -- Specimens -- 1823.
Wales -- Description and travel.
Wales -- Pictorial works.
Contributors:
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver.
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