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Pen yr Ole Wen faintly silhouetted against an evening sky.

In the left hand corner is an expanse of bare rock. This appears to give shelter to a small cottage of which only the chimney is visible. In the middle distance is a two storey farmhouse flanked by stone outbuildings.

The exterior showing the tall window of Kyffin's unsuitable studio at his late mother's home, Cefn Gadlys, Llansadwrn.

A small lake / reservoir in the uplands.

The view between two stone pillars in an unidentified slate quarry.

A small slate clad chapel adjacent to slate tips, with mountains in the background.

A corner of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy churchyard which includes three identical slabs laid in a row.

Llanfaethlu church - the present nave represents the original 15th century church with the chancel being added in 1874. The font is dated 1640 and the bell 1760.

The church tower and entrance.

Llansadwrn church in sunshine.

A view of the church and churchyard showing the entrance and the bell.

A boulder strewn field at the far end of which is a small cottage and an outbuilding.

Kyffin Williams sitting on a chair in his studio working on a sketchpad resting on his knee. Behind him on an easel is an unframed oil painting of cliffs at South Stack.

A rain soaked Kyffin Williams talking to two middle aged men amongst a crowd of people.

A technician working on the hanging of 'Kyffin Williams RA' at Oriel Mostyn. A number of works are visible behind him including the portrait of Amelia Paget.

Sunlit waves breaking on a rocky shore on the right of the painting.

A fishing boat with blue hull and white superstructure moored in the lee of a rock around which waves are breaking.

Square unframed canvas showing steep cliffs and rocky coastline believed to be St David's Head with Ramsay Island on the horizon.

A square unframed canvas dominated by steep cliffs on the left hand side. A wave set is approaching the cliffs from the bottom right of the frame. A low lying headland can be seen on the horizon.

The second edition (or reissue), [1740], of Francis Willughby's De Historia Piscium Libri Quatuor (Oxford, 1686) [ESTC N51867, where it is dated c. 1743]. The work is made up of the De Historia Piscium Libri Quatuor (ff. 2-177), together with 'Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium' (London, 1740) (ff. 178-205) and a sequence of some 187 engraved plates from the first edition (on the rectos of ff. 206-392). The plates have been extensively annotated (with English and Welsh names, and eyewitness accounts), and sometimes further illustrated (on ff. 215, 224, 244, 248, 281 verso, 283, 295, 341 verso, 347), by Welsh polymath Lewis Morris.
Morris' marginal notes glossing the printed text appear on ff. 4 recto-verso, 85, 88 verso-90, 92, 97-104 verso, 115 verso-116, 118, 137, 146, 165 recto-verso, 175 verso-176, 178, 188 verso-189, 191, 192, 194 verso-195 verso, 197, 198 verso-199, 200, 202-204; his Welsh translations of fish names on ff. 16 verso-18; and extensive notes on fish on ff. 206-391 passim. These last set of notes reflect Morris' retrospective interest in fish seen on the coast of Anglesey (ff. 189, 213, 215, 227, 240, 242, 250, 251 verso, 280 verso, 281 verso, 283, 284, 285, 286, 341 verso, 347) and elsewhere (ff. 224, 248, 295 verso) before his departure to Cardiganshire in 1742. Further accounts of fish seen in Cardigan Bay are on ff. 241, 243 verso, 295 (dated 1747) and 311 (dated 1745). It is possible that these notes form the basis of Lewis Morris' projected, but unpublished, Natural History of Anglesey (see Dafydd Wyn Wiliam, Lewis Morris: Deugain Mlynedd Cyntaf ei Oes 1700/1-42 ([Bodedern], 1997), p. 150). See also Maredudd ap Huw, 'Pysgod Lewis Morris', Tlysau'r Hen Oesoedd, 37 (Ebrill 2015), 3-10.