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Title: ‘GWISGIADAU CYMREIG _ HOODS & CLOAKS / Cardigan’
Description: Two women with Welsh hats, one with an umbrella; two with enormous hoods over tall hats, both with umbrellas; one on horseback. The background is a village street with a pig and a church tower vaguely similar to Rock and Co.’s Gwisgiadaw Cymreig_Mode of Carrying Infants (1853) The woman in the foreground is holding a book, possibly a prayer book or bible which might indicate that they are on their way to church (or chapel).
Note: Other versions of this print have a superscript e after Cardigan [for Cardiganshire]
Medium: steel engraving
Size: 10.4 x 13.7 cms.
Artist: T.O. (monogram, bottom right-hand corner) [Thomas Onwhyn (1814-1886)]
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: Rock and Co.
Date: 1.5.1853

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