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Welsh Costume: Onwhyn, Stray Leaves, 1850s

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Title: Stray Leaves / Counties in Wales / Productions, Antiquities etc. / Welsh Fairs and Hirings
Description: Four pages (blank on reverse) with many illustrations of women in Welsh costumes.
Note: Thomas Onwhyn (1814-1886) drew the originals of other prints published by Rock & Co. He also produced a series of satirical albums of comic pictures including 'Tourists in Wales, Pencillings in the Principalities by a Pedestrian artist' (Rock and Co., London, 1850s). His father, Joseph, published 'Onwhyn's Welsh tourist; or, New guide to North and South Wales, and the Wye .. (1840).'
Medium: print
Size: each page: 7.1 x 10.8; image: 6.1 x 9.4 cms.
Artist: Thomas Onwhyn (monogram in bottom right of first page)
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Rock & Co.
Date: 1850s

Owner:
The National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, (12), Welsh costumes box 4 no. 207
Creator:
Thomas Onwhyn (1814-1886)
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The National Library of Wales
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