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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: 42.---Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/42-Denbigh-Castle-q75-315x200.jpg "[picture: 42.---Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire]")
42.—Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire
The book does not discuss Denbigh Castle at all as far as I can tell. The castle was started in the 1280s by Edward I; like so many castles in Britain it was demolished as part of the English Civil War, in this case after a four-month [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Chepstow Castle, 4:3 cropped version]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/62-Chepstow-from-the-Bridge-4by3-q67-267x200.jpg "[picture: Chepstow Castle, 4:3 cropped version]")
Chepstow Castle, 4:3 cropped version
This is a detail from the Chepstow From the Bridge engraving, sized suitably for a background. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Entrance to Beaumaris Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/65-beaumaris-entrance-307x200.jpg "[picture: Entrance to Beaumaris Castle]")
Plate 65.—Entrance to Beaumaris Castle.
Drawn by H. Gastineau, Engraved by F. R. Hay.
There’s another picture of Beaumaris Castle in Old England. The castle was started in 1295 at the order of King Edward I, after the revolt in 1294/5 led by Madog ap Llywelyn. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from an old painting]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/026-Usk-coloured-q75-311x200.jpg "[picture: Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from an old painting]")
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from an old painting
This is a version of the engraving of Usk Bridge to which i have applied the colour from an old painting; the artist of the painting was not attributed, but the details were a very close match so the [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Fall of the Teify]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/06-fall-of-the-teify-313x200.jpg "[picture: Fall of the Teify]")
