John - thanks for going down into your mine of info.
Regards - Terry
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From: powys-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:powys-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of John Ball
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:48 AM
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [POWYS] Photos of: Neath Abbey, near Skewen, GLA
Terry Dipple <tadip44(a)cinci.rr.com> wrote:
John - I received this off-line:
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Goggle Gastenaeu. Select Gasteneau Artist. Go to Glamorgan part of the site
and an engraving is displayed for Neath Abbey, Dated around mid 1700s. Not
as early as you wished but this does give a good idea of the size of the
Abbey.
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Dear Terry,
Henri Gastineau's biography is on the Gathering the Jewels website:
http://www.gtj.org.uk/index.php?id=4760
He was born in 1791 (died 1876), so his work dates from the 19th century.
There is an engraving from one of his drawings on my Neath Abbey webpage
(bottom of page). The other two engravings on my Neath Abbey webpage also
date from the same period.
All three engravings are romanticised interpretations of the appearance of
the abbey ruins some 700 years after it was built.
You'll find at least three examples of the work of Henri Gastineau among the
collection of 46 engravings on my "Old Prints of South and West Wales"
feature:
http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/walespic/prints/
I shall visit my local library later today, in the hope of finding an
artist's impression of the abbey as it was in the 12th century.
Kind regards,
John
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