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![[picture: Front Cover, History of Wales]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-356x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, History of Wales]")
Pictures from The History of Wales by B. B. Woodward, B.A., London, (Quarto, 1853 [First edition] vi + (ii) + 608pp, illustrated with 76 steel-engraved plates)
If you use these pictures for anything, or would like me to scan more, let me know. You can refer to the list of illustrations. All of these images are out of copyright (in the public domain). Henry Gastineau (the principal artist) died in 1876.
There is a low-quality scan of this entire book at Google Books but they forgot to scan the plates, I think.
Title: History of Wales
City: London
Date: 1853
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Chepstow Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/04-chepstow-castle-314x200.jpg "[picture: Chepstow Castle]")
Plate 4.—Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire.
Drawn by H. Gastineau. Engraved by H. W. Bond. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/026-Usk-coloured-q75-311x200.jpg "[picture: Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting]")
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
This is a version of the engraving of Usk Bridge to which i have applied the colour from an old painting; the artist of the painting was not attributed, but the details were a very close match so the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Plate 23.---Llanthony Abbey.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/23-Llanthony-Abbey-wallpaper-sepia-q56-320x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 23.---Llanthony Abbey.]")
This engraving shows the ruins of Llanthony Priory in Wales.
I have left the sepia tint from the old ink and paper. [$]
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![[picture: Plate 72.---Caernarvon Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/72-EagleTower-Caernarvon-315x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 72.---Caernarvon Castle]")
![[picture: 62.---Chepstow from the bridge.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/62-Chepstow-from-the-Bridge-q85-355x200.jpg "[picture: 62.---Chepstow from the bridge.]")
