Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Butetown circa 1850 (print)

Monotone print of a pen and ink drawing showing an aerial view of Butetown, Cardiff as it might have been in the 1850s. Stuck onto card. Signed and dated.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

90.21I/1

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Date: 1850 (circa)
Place: Butetown

Creation/Production

Trained as an art teacher but did not follow the profession instead working as a commercial artist and designer. Initially worked for Monmouthshire Board Mills (paper and card manufacturers), Newport, designing packaging, then worked on advertisements and displays for Davies Brothers, builders’ merchants, Newport until the marketing department was disbanded when the firm was acquired by Blue Circle Cement in 1987, when he turned freelance. Subsequently he undertook a wide range of illustration and sign writing, concentrating on pre-print design work. He always had an interest in railways and for many years volunteered on the Dean Forest Railway as a signalman, and when the preservation line grew, was commissioned to provide much of its advertisements and marketing material.
Role: Artist
Period: 1990

Acquisition

purchase, 5/1990

Measurements

mount (mm): 253
mount (mm): 330
mount (mm): 406
mount (mm): 533

Techniques

Print

Material

Paper
Card

Classification

topography townscape
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