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Rita SingerBrand-new business cards and wallet are go. Can't wait to release them into the wild for the first time this Friday, 16 May, at <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CartoCymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CartoCymru</a> at the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a>. I'm really looking forward to the conference and the chance to chat about Welsh heritage and contemporary art, to say nothing about looking at some beautiful maps.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#heritage</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Rita SingerBrand-new business cards and wallet are go. If you're attending <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CartoCymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CartoCymru</a> this Friday, 16 May, at the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a>, I'll gladly share them with you. And of course have a chat over contemporary Welsh art and cultural heritage and mapping.

Rita SingerA day of launches today. In the morning the staff of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a> got an exclusive preview of Peter Lord's humdinger of an exhibition "No Welsh Art" (spoiler: totes Welsh art!) in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/aberystwyth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#aberystwyth</a> and now the evening starts with Andrew Green's new book "Voices on the Path". Culture vulture in mid <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a>.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/exhibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#exhibition</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/booklaunch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#booklaunch</a>

Rita SingerIf you have not yet found your way to the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a> in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Aberystwyth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aberystwyth</a> this month, go and treat yourself to a very special exhibition. The <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalGallery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalGallery</a> sent the Canaletto painting as a historical marker of the painting's evacuation to <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a> during <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WW2</a>. Naturally, the curator whipped a good selection of the library's own art treasures out to show off the cream of 200+ years of landscape art from and in Wales. As a personal special treat, I discovered a Josef Herman ink drawing that I displayed in my own exhibition nine years ago.

Rita SingerBecause it's Holy Week and people are gearing up to descend in droves on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Snowdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Snowdon</a> over the up-coming long weekend, here's a reminder from history that it's not really worth the effort:"Would I had stayed on level ground And kept the goblet brimming For on the top here I have found nor weeds nor wine nor women Had I but known, no toil were mine I never would have so done Give me my mistress & my wine The Devil may take Snowdon F. Thompson Jr. God bless the girls. R. R. Blackwell" Snowdon Visitors’ Books,1863–66, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a>, p.113For more disgruntled hilarity by historic tourists, here's a full write-up. <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#histodons</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tourism</a> <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645145.2022.2063102" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645145.2022.2063102</a>

Rita SingerUgh, look at this beautiful photo of "Man with a pony" from the collection of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a>. Stupendous! <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/horse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#horse</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#photography</a> source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_with_a_pony_(4520564605).jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_with_a_pony_(4520564605).jpg</a>

Rita SingerYou know why it is great to raid through archival letter boxes in the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a>? Because you look for Allen Raine stuff and get R.D Blackmore, William Gladstone, David Lloyd-George and an assortment of antiquarians thrown into the mix. (There was also a random H.M. Stanley among them. But that's by the by.)

Rita SingerSome quick <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bywgraffiadur</a> browsing of the digital holdings of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a> and I stumble over a short appreciative bio of my fellow-<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#German</a>, Prof Hermann Ethé. He was a leading scholar of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MiddleEast</a> languages and manuscripts, most prominently in <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Arabic</a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Persian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Persian</a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Turkish</a>, and came to <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Aberystwyth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aberystwyth</a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a>, to teach German alongside the languages of his actual area of expertise. Within a few weeks of the outbreak of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WWI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WWI</a> he was chased out of town by an anti-German mob and died in Bristol in 1917 mostly of a broken heart of having been treated so shamefully. The uni, to their credit, always stood by him and undertook countless appeals to the UK government to gain a pension for Ethé.We still need to write up his biography in the Dictionary.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#histodons</a> Image source: <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5905457" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5905457</a>

Rita SingerWell, what do you know. The <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a> holds the original drawing volume of illustrations in Cambria Depicta. Apart from being an invaluable compilation of north Wales views around 1800, it is also an interesting source for comparisons between original artworks and their copies produced for mass circulation in print. And as it so happens, Robert Roberts's perilous situation actually looks even more perilous in the original ink <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#drawing</a>.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TravelWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TravelWriting</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DigitalCopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DigitalCopy</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OpenAccess</a>Source: <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1253825" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1253825</a>

Rita SingerAnd there is yet another Asian missionary with a link to <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wales</a>. This is U Larsing, or Larsing Khongwir (1838 - 1863) from the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India. He was one of the first from this area to go on a lecture circuit in England and Wales in the 1860s. He died in Caergwrle, Flintshire, during his visit to Britain and was buried in Chester.John Hughes Morris of Liverpool wrote Larsing's biography, which you can read here courtesy of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NationalLibraryWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NationalLibraryWales</a>: <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5967792" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5967792</a>Image Source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_U._Larsing_(4670373).jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_U._Larsing_(4670373).jpg</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bywgraffiadur</a>

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