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Welsh Costume: Welsh Peasants Washing, Pyne, 1805

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Title: WELSH PEASANTS WASHING
The text to accompany the illustration of 'Welsh Peasants Washing' which begins ‘The custom of beating linen …’
Medium: print
Size: Paper: 24.9 x 35.5 cms.
Artist: William Henry Pyne (1769-1843)
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: [William Miller, Abermarle St. London.] Published with a detailed description of the washing process as no. 9 in Pyne’s 'The Costume of Great Britain' (1805)
Date: 1805, republished 1808. Republished as Pyne's British Costumes, (Westminster Editions, Poole, 1989)

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The National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, NLW (89), Welsh Costumes box 1 nos. 11 & 12
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