Figure 1. Sketch of the River Wye, from Ross to Chepstow.
Materials
Editorial and Contextual Materials
Manuscripts of The Banks of Wye
Introduction
Introduction: Tim Fulford
Robert Bloomfield’s poem, tour journal and sketch book The Banks of Wye (1807-11) represents a visually and verbally rich response to the fashionable tour
Journal of a Ten Days' Tour
JOURNAL of A TEN DAYS' TOUR FROM ULEY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BY WAY of ROSS; Down the
RIVER WYE to CHEPSTOW; ABERGAVENNY, BRECON, HEREFORD, MALVERN. &c. &c. -- Augst 1807
[A transcription of Bloomfield's prose journal of his Wye tour from the text as it
appears, with his sketches and pasted-in maps and notes, in British Library Additional
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Figure 1. 37 Roman Brick, about 8 inches square. // A humble scetch of 'Marn Morinion,' or the 'Maiden Stone' at the Gaer, three miles from Brecon. RB
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Figure 1. 39 The remaining Tower of Broynllis Castle.
