Description: Universum11_10 1844 Meyer print CONWY (CONWAY) CASTLE, NORTH WALES, GREAT BRITAIN (#10) Nice print titled Conway Castle (Caernarvonshire), from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. page size 26.5 x 19 cm, approx. image size is 15 x 10 cm. From Meyer's Universum, published by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen Germany. Conwy, also spelled CONWAY, town, Aberconwy district, Gwynedd county, Wales, on the River Conwy Estuary of the North Wales coast. Conwy was created by the English king Edward I in 1283 as one of a chain of fortified towns in the then newly invaded North Wales. A Cistercian monastery already occupied this site; but Edward removed the monastery upstream to Maenan, leaving its church as the borough's parish church. The town was built on as nearly a grid plan as the site permitted, with the castle on the river bank in the southeast corner. Though the castle was partially dismantled in 1665, the town walls (with 21 towers and 3 gateways) have remained virtually complete, making Conwy one of Europe's finest surviving examples of a medieval bastide (a town laid out according to a definite geometric plan). Sixteenth-century buildings in the town include the mansion Aberconwy (c. 1500), Plâs Mawr (the Great House, built 1577-80, now housing the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art), and the Black Lion (1582, a coaching inn). Across the Conwy Estuary, Deganwy is of much greater antiquity, with a 6th-century Welsh fortress; but little remains of its fortifications, and after Conwy was founded it became subordinate to the new town. During the 19th century, transport improvements brought to Conwy Thomas Telford's graceful suspension bridge (1826) and Robert Stephenson's tubular railway bridge (1848). Conwy is now primarily a tourist centre. Pop. (1981) 13,462.
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Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14'')
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Style: Realism
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Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Subject: Landscape
Print Type: Engraving
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1844
