North Wales as as an old peasant woman

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Dame Venodotia, Alias Modryb Gwen; A Map of North Wales.

DODD, J[oseph] J[osiah]; [after] HUGHES, H[ugh]
Carvarvon,
Published by H. Humphreys, Castle Square,
[c.1851].
Lithograph map, hand-coloured.
(sheet) 385 by 290mm (15.25 by 11.5 inches).
1155

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North Wales is here depicted as an old woman in traditional Welsh dress with a heavy sack on her back. Below the map is a table of the northern Welsh counties together with the principal cities, towns and villages.

Joseph Josiah Dodd (1809-1894) was a topographical artist and engraver, who worked in Carnarvon from 1851.

Rare; Worldcat only records one institutional example that in the British Library. ...

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BLMC Maps 6096.(12.)

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