Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763-1813: A Native Artist
John Barrell
Series: Wales and the French Revolution
University of Wales Press
March 2013
ISBN: 9780708325667 HB . £65
ISBN: 9780708325674 PB . £25
59 colour and 74 black and white images
189x246mm Landscape . 384pp
Edward Pugh (1763-1813) was a Ruthin-born, Welsh-speaking artist and writer who wrote what is probably the best account of a tour in North Wales, Cambria Depicta, and produced compelling landscape images of North Wales, and of his native Denbighshire in particular, as well as of Monmouthshire and London. This book, the first to consider Pugh's work in detail, shows how his landscapes reveal a wealth of local knowledge, and dramatise some issues of great importance to Wales in his time: the effects of the enclosure of common land; the effects of the war with France on industry and the condition of the poor; the need to develop and modernise the Welsh economy; the power of the great landowners. Apart from Pugh's, almost all the pictures and tours we have of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century North Wales were made by English artists and writers. None of these can tell us about life in North Wales with the same insight as Pugh.
John Barrell, Professor in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York.
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