Pont-y-Pair over the River Conway above Llanrwst in the County of Denbigh, 1776

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series Title

Twelve Views in North Wales: pl. 12

Medium

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint with burnishing printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.2 × 39.8 cm (12 11/16 × 15 11/16 in.)
plate: 23.7 × 31.3 cm (9 5/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
image: 21.8 × 29.6 cm (8 9/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Gunn 2015, no. 225

Accession Number

1980.20.1

Artists / Makers

Paul Sandby (artist) British, 1731 - 1809

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at center: Pont y Pair over the River Conway above Llanrwst in the County of Denbigh; in plate, below image, at left: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Sep.r 1st. 1776.; in plate, below image, at right: P. Sandby Fecit; in plate, above image, at left: No. 12; verso: none

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2015: Gunn, Ann V. The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809). Turnhout, 2015: no. 225

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 102, fig. 6.