Title page, from "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797"
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 5 3/4 in. (21.4 × 14.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.764(1)
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
This title page comes from "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797," a travel book published in 1800 that captured the growing British fascination with picturesque landscapes and domestic tourism. Created through letterpress printing—a technique prized for its crisp, reproducible text and decorative elements—the sheet measures just over eight inches tall, making it a compact yet elegant introduction to the volume’s observations of Welsh scenery, ruins, and customs. The work reflects the late Georgian era’s enthusiasm for illustrated travel narratives, when artists and wr...
About the Artist
Henry Wigstead|John Hill|W. Wigstead|Thomas Rowlandson (British|British) · 1740 |1757 –1800 |1827
British, 1745?–1800 Margate|British, London 1757–1827 London