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Image number: RS.9189
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Caergwrle Castle, Flintshire
Date
1778
Object type
Library reference
81550
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 238mm
width (print): 176mm
width (print): 176mm
Subject
Description
Caergwrle Castle as featured in the title page to A tour of Wales, by Thomas Pennant (London, 1778).
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer was the author of a number of popular travel narratives of Britain, in the eighteenth century. Pennant toured Wales in the 1770s accompanied by the Revd John Lloyd of Caerwys, who provided Welsh translation for him.
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer was the author of a number of popular travel narratives of Britain, in the eighteenth century. Pennant toured Wales in the 1770s accompanied by the Revd John Lloyd of Caerwys, who provided Welsh translation for him.
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