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Title
Date(s)
- 1805, [1831]-[1845] (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
44 ff. (25 pp. blank, all versos) ; 240 x 185 mm.
Contemporary half red roan; gold double fillets and tooling on spine.
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers; Haslemere; Purchased at auction, lot 375; 10 August 2021; 991231775702419.
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Scope and content
Manuscript journal of a tour of south and west Wales, as well as parts of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 4 June-2 October 1805 (ff. 3-32 verso passim), also including several contemporary illustrations and later pasted-in engravings.
The writer is unknown but appears to be female and was travelling in the company of her 'Papa' and several other presumed relatives. Beginning in Gloucester (ff. 3-4), the journal then recounts a journey down the River Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 7-8, 10-11 verso) and an extended stay at Swansea, 16 June-30 July (ff. 13-14, 16-17, 19, 21-22), before proceeding to Pembrokeshire (ff. 22 verso-23, 26-28 verso), Aberystwyth (ff. 29-31 verso) and Dolgellau (ff. 32 recto-verso), where the narrative ends abruptly, mid-sentence. The volume includes descriptions of Gloucester Cathedral (ff. 3-4), Margam Park (ff. 12-13), the Brownslade estate, [Castlemartin] (ff. 26-27 verso), St Govan's Head (ff. 26 verso-27 verso), the lower River Teifi (ff. 28-29), Devil's Bridge (ff. 29 verso-31) and the house at Hafod, Cardiganshire (f. 31 recto-verso). The illustrations are of pen and wash in a naïve style and comprise eight full page drawings (ff. 2, 6, 9, 15, 18, 20, 24, 25) and three text illustrations (ff. 8, 14, 17) all depicting views along the route. Conversely the fifteen engravings, [1831]-[1845], pasted into the volume depict various views in England, Wales and India and are, with a single exception, unrelated to the text (inside front cover, ff. 1 verso, 2 verso, 33-44 (rectos only)).
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Covers worn; ff. 1-3 re-attached and a loose leaf pasted in inside the back cover at NLW, 2023.
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Note
Original title.
Note
A printed specimen illustration of a Sutton Palmer painting, ['The Wye, Hay, Breconshire'], [1909], is pasted inside the back cover.
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Place access points
Name access points
- Gloucester Cathedral (Subject)
- Margam Estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Brownslade estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Hafod Mansion (Ceredigion, Wales) (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
September 2022.
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Jones.