Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Llanfoist Wharf c1840 (print)

Black and white print showing Llanfoist Wharf in about 1840. Artists original signature at bottom right. Artists signature and date '85' printed bottom right.

According to caption in book 'Portraits of the Past' it depicts a scene from Alexander Cordell's novel 'The Rape of the Fair Country', when the ironworkers and their families piled into the narrowboats for their June outing to Newport Fair.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2015.98/34

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Place: Llanfoist

Creation/Production

Role: Artist
Period: 1985

Acquisition

donation, 2/12/2015

Measurements

Length (mm): 390
Width (mm): 527

Techniques

Print

Material

Card

Classification

industrial archaeology
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