Title

Statue in the Hall, at Abergavenny, 1845. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Statue in the Hall, at Abergavenny, 1845. Sculpture on display at the Cymreigyddion Festival in Wales. '...a splendid Statue of the ancient bard Taliesin pen Beirrdd, the work of Mr. W. Jones, of Merthyr Tydvil, who had brought it 150 miles to grace the Eisteddfod of 1845...(the Prince of the Bards) wrapped in a simple frock, like a monk's, bound round the waist with a rope, one arm raised high above his head, as if in denunciation, with the air and aspect of a prophet. The bard is in the act of exhorting the Clergy to retain the doctrines of tie Gospel, as they had received them from the Apostolic hand, against St. Augustine with the innovations of Rome. There is a great spirit and character in this work, the composition simple, the action vigorous, and the meaning clear. We shall see it in marble."' From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM21A07_210

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

39,0Mo (1,9Mo) / 23,2cm x 42,0cm / 2746 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male event man men arts Wales country statue statues sculpture art festival guy British location Victorian century gesturing Britain newspapers press literature Welsh B&W full length hand gesture full-length bard 19th century black & white black and white B W poet nineteenth century Monmouthshire The Print Collector cultural event eisteddfod Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper engraving Abergavenny Unknown Y Fenni Abergavenny Welsh Literary and Music Festivals Cymreigyddion Festival Cymreigyddion y Fenni Taliesin Taliesin pen Beirrdd