Pennant Tours

Thomas Pennant, 'A History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell' (1796) [page facing title pageThomas Pennant (1726-1798) “A Tour in Wales”, is a four volume set with 314 original watercolour drawings of churches, castles, bridges, country houses and coats of arms by John Harris (d. 1834), in addition to the original engravings by Moses Griffith hand watercolour. Of the three sets, only two remain, one having been lost in a fire at Wynnstay.

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