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View Up Neath River from the House at Briton Ferry in Glamorgan Shire, plate five from Twelve Views in South Wales, 1775. Aquatint with etching on ivory laid paper.
Aquatint with etching on ivory laid paper · Image: 18.3 × 25.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- View Up Neath River from the House at Briton Ferry in Glamorgan Shire, plate five from Twelve Views in South Wales
- Artist
- Paul Sandby English, 1731-1809
- Date
- 1775
- Medium
- Aquatint with etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.3 × 25.8 cm (7 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.); Plate: 23.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 53 cm (14 × 20 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. George B. Young
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1731–1809
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.