Publisher/Manufacturer: R.Blamire, London Series title: A Tour through parts of Wales
1794 Aquatint with etching, hand coloured in sepia watercolour, on cream wove Whatman paper
128 x 193 mm. Miss E.C.Livesey, Southsea, Portsmouth?
Book illustration from William Sotheby's 'Tour through parts of Wales' of 1794. Sotheby was preoccupied with what may have taken place here in Anglesey as he described a white-robed priest sacrificing human blood. Smith portrays an eighteenth-century figure examining the remains
Picturesque view of a cromlech; foreground, a tree, a cromlech with a large, overgrown, horizontal stone and a man holding an optical device with a flap controlled by a cord; background, mountain, possibly Snowdon. Dust-ground aquatint with etching and sepia watercolour wash. No evident plate mark. Paper has a watermark which reads 'J.WHATMAN'.
