collection: National Library of Wales

instance of: print (8,547) | photograph (5,364) | oil painting (622) | watercolor painting (179) | drawing (166) | illumination (34) | reprography (33) | painting (17) | photomontage (11) | lithograph (8) | frontispiece (3) | geographic map (2) | title page (2) | panel painting (1) | ambrotype (1) | headed paper (1) | engraving (1) | etching (1)

genre: portrait (5,235) | monochrome photography (4,454) | portrait photography (1,312) | landscape art (215) | documentary photography (60) | marine art (22) | cityscape (17) | landscape photography (11) | street photography (6) | self-portrait (4) | interior view (4) | still life (2) | caricature (2) | mythological painting (2) | sport art (1)

based on: Aberistwyth Castle (3) | The North View Of Skinfrith Castle, In The County Of Monmouth (2) | Llanblythian castle (2) | Cardigan Castle (2) | Neath castle (2) | River Wye (‘Chepstow Castle’) (1) | Criccieth Castle (1) | Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris (1) | An Overshot Mill in Wales (Aberdulais) (1) | Harlech Castle (1) | Landdwyn Priory (1) | Powis Castle (1) | The north-west view of St. Donats castle, in the county of Glamorgan (1) | Montgomery Castle (1) | Lanharne Castle (1) | Caernarvon Castle (1) | Pembroke Castle (1) | Brecknock Castle (1)

artist: John Thomas (2,654) | Percy Benzie Abery (1,746) | John Cochran (421) | J. Newman & Co. (276) | anonymous (248) | D. C. Harries (200) | William Radclyffe (123) | William Byrne (101) | Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (94) | William Crane (88) | Samuel Sparrow (87) | Thomas Blood (85) | John Ingleby (84) | Thomas Anthony Dean (83) | Paul Sandby (77) | James Sargant Storer (75) | William Ridley (74) | Moses Griffith (72)

depicts: cleric (2,377) | woman (779) | ruins (743) | man (545) | politician (412) | tree (349) | mountain (331) | poet (330) | house (306) | military personnel (297) | writer (284) | residence (281) | nobility (268) | boat (250) | church building (241) | soldier (232) | cattle (220) | horse (217)

material used: glass (4,352) | collodion (1,215) | dry plate (1,181) | photographic plate (1,171) | oil paint (622) | canvas (479) | board (90) | paper (56) | watercolor paint (39) | chromolithography (14) | pencil (12) | ink (12) | collodion process (12) | print (10) | canvas (9) | paint (7) | lithograph (6) | panel (3)

part of: Welsh Portrait Collection (4,861) | Welsh Landscape Collection (4,670) | Photographs by John Thomas (2,529) | P B Abery photographic collection (1,746) | D C Harries Military Portraits (200) | John Ingleby Watercolours (84) | Welsh tour drawings (67) | Sketches in north Wales (66) | A tour of South and Mid Wales (51) | Vaux Passional (34) | Photographs by Philip Jones Griffiths (2) | Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1) | Yny lhyvyr hwnn (1)

country of origin: United States of America (1) | Province of Canada (1)

exhibition history: Europeana 280 (8) | Royal Academy of Arts (1)

main subject: Conwy (188) | Caernarfon (163) | Tintern (160) | Chepstow (152) | Aberystwyth (138) | Llanberis (113) | Menai Bridge (108) | Bangor (94) | Llangollen (90) | Snowdonia (88) | Swansea (86) | Tenby (86) | Raglan (84) | Pembroke (84) | Beaumaris (77) | Harlech (67) | Cardiff (64) | Beddgelert (63)

published in: Wales illustrated: in a series of views, comprising the picturesque scenery, towns, castles, seats of the nobility & gentry, antiquities, &c. (245) | The antiquities of England and Wales (134) | Beauties of England and Wales (96) | An historical tour in Monmouthshire (85) | A collection of engravings of castles and abbeys in Wales (84) | A picturesque guide through Wales and the Marches (66) | A description of England and Wales (55) | A voyage round Great Britain (49) | Wanderings and excursions in North Wales (45) | Ancient castles of England and Wales (45) | A collection of forty-eight views of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, towns, castles, churches, monasteries, and romantic places in north and south Wales (44) | Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales (43) | The principal rivers of Wales illustrated (40) | Wanderings and excursions in South Wales (39) | Welsh Scenery. From drawings by Captain Batty (38) | A collection of one hundred and fifty select views, in England, Scotland, and Ireland (35) | Antiquarian and topographical cabinet (35) | Beauties of Cambria (33)

fabrication method: engraving process (3,568) | analog photography (3,398) | digitization (2,530) | stipple engraving (2,082) | collodion process (1,213) | lithography (1,194) | aquatint (764) | dry plate (759) | etching (249) | mezzotint technique (242) | wood engraving technique (125) | vernis mou technique (96) | print (90) | rotogravure (53) | chromolithography (52) | watercolor (38) | woodcut technique (25) | art of drawing (25)