LLUN Bocs C40 / LLUN Bocs C41

Name of traveller

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794)

Reason for travel

• production of landscape sketches as illustrations for a travel guide

Date of travel

June to August 1777

Content

• agriculture: cows of fairly small stature; some sheep on upland pastures
• architecture: largely focus on ruined castles and churches, but also shows small-town houses and cottages
• art: a number of loose inkwash drawings that formed the basis for the engraved plates used in a later guidebook; collected in two boxes
• clothes: documents clothes of the country population of all ages
• people:
  • journey undertaken together with Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819)
  • depiction of a number of peasants in their ordinary surroundings
• recreation: some illustrations show tourists inspecting ruined castles or churches together with what appear to be hired guides
• terrain: documentary quality of the drawings in depicting largely rural landscapes
• compare with published version of the journey

Nationality of traveller

Swiss

Language of publication

English

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

inkwash drawings

Citation

Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus. LLUN Bocs C40. LLUN Bocs C41. 1777. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. MS.