Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Water Balance : Penrhyn Quarry (drawing)

Hughes, Olwen (Artist)

View of water balance at Pemrhyn slate quarry. Title bottom left. Signed and dated bottom right.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1997.3/11

Historical Associations

Association Type: Slate quarries
Date: 1980
Place: Penrhyn slate quarry

Creation/Production

Hughes, Olwen
Born and brought up in Rhymney. Educated in Wales, she later lived and worked in Leicester. She provided illustrations for various publications and her work appeared regularly in the Western Mail and Leicester Mercury. She was awarded MBE in 2002 ‘for services to the community’.
Role: Artist
Period: 1980

Acquisition

collected officially, 6/1/1997

Measurements

mount (mm): 390
mount (mm): 445

Techniques

Pen and ink on card
Painting and drawing

Material

Card

Categories

Slate Gwynedd (county name)
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