View in Cwn Rydol

by Joseph Constantine Stadler, after John Warwick Smith

$400 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A picturesque view of the valley of the Rhydol River, near Hafod from Tour to Hafod, a fine collection of plates depicting the mansion and its surrounding landscape engraved by Stadler after drawings by Smith. Comprised of 15 views, Tour to Hafod also included comprehensive descriptive text by the scientist and collector James Edward Smith. The work was most likely intended as a tribute to the social benefactor and literary man Thomas Johnes 1748-1816 , who devoted much of

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