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Michael Gibbs and Bernard Morris.
This booklet brings together, for the first time, ten known views of places in and around Swansea in the 1790s engraved by Thomas Rothwell (1740-1807) from his original compositions. Two oil paintings, attributed to Rothwell, are also illustrated, as well as some comparative work by one of his contemporaries. He was the son of an enamel painter in Liverpool, and came to Swansea in the late 1780s to work as the principal engraver at the Cambrian Pottery.
Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (1910) described Rothwell simply as ‘an obscure engraver’. Rothwell was a skilled engraver of other men’s work, and the Swansea views may be unique in his output in that they were based on his own originals.
Glamorgan Archives and the Authors, 1991. Paperback, 56 pages. Black and white, with 2 colour illustrations.
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