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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Signed and dated bottom right.
Catalogue Entry : Artist yn y Chwareli / An Artist in the Quarries, 1981
Wil Proudley, yn hollti clwt o lechfaen, Chwefror 1948. Gyda bwrdd llifio y naill ochr iddo ac injan naddu 'guillotine' ar y llall, y mae'r gweithiwr wrthi'n hollti llechen gyda chyn llafn-llydan, sef y cyn manhollt. Y tu ôl iddo, yn pwyso yn erbyn y wal, gwelir y pren mesur y byddai'n ei ddefnyddio i farcio hyd a lled arbennig y llechen wrth ei naddu.
Wil Proudley, splitting a block of slate, February 1948. Flanked by a sawing table and a guillotine dressing machine the workman is splitting slate using a broad-bladed chisel called a manhollt. Behind him standing against the wall is a notched measuring stick used to fix the sizes when dressing slate.
