Casgliadau Arlein

Black and white print showing Llanfoist Wharf in about 1840. Artists original signature at bottom right. Artists signature and date '85' printed bottom right.

According to caption in book 'Portraits of the Past' it depicts a scene from Alexander Cordell's novel 'The Rape of the Fair Country', when the ironworkers and their families piled into the narrowboats for their June outing to Newport Fair.