Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tenby is now perhaps Wales’s best known seaside resort, but it did not become famous until the early nineteenth century. These fresh, vivid drawings depict a quiet port and undeveloped shoreline, peopled by working figures. Francis Place was one of the first British artists to specialise in drawing landscape. He visited Wales in 1678 and these drawings are among the earliest known images of Wales drawn on the spot.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 3378

Creation/Production

PLACE, Francis
Date: 1678

Acquisition

Purchase, 8/9/1931

Measurements

Height (cm): 19.2
Width (cm): 55.2
Height (in): 7
Width (in): 21

Techniques

mixed media on paper
drawings and watercolours
Fine Art - works on paper

Material

ink
wash

Location

In store
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