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Moses Griffith (artist)

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about 1769. Pennant helped him to study drawing and engraving, and Griffith became his constant companion on his tours and excursions, making the drawings and engravings for Pennant's numerous works. Griffith became proficient both as a draughtsman and as an engraver. Griffith accompanied Pennant
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and also visited Scotland, this became a basis of his career between 1769-1790. After Thomas' death, Griffith was employed by his son David and produced nearly 200 watercolors in Wales for him between 1805-1813.
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scenes, churches, country houses, and portraits, including two self-portraits. His work is to be found in
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Old Nannau sketch by Moses Griffith 1797, built by Huw Nanney, circa. 1697.
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Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
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On leaving Pennant's service he settled at Wibnant, near
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from a unique set of eight extra-illustrated volumes of
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employed Griffith to engrave some of the plates in his
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Griffith was born at Trygarn House in the parish of
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Moses Griffiths

Pierre-Charles Canot

Bryncroes
Llŷn Peninsula
Caernarfonshire
Thomas Pennant
Holywell, Flintshire
Francis Grose
Welsh
National Museum of Wales
British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
An original watercolour of Clynnog by Griffith (1782), from the National Library of Wales' extra-illustrated set of A Tour in Wales.
Clynnog
National Library of Wales
Lobelia dortmanna drawn by Griffith, engraved by Peter Mazell, from John Lightfoot's 1777 Flora Scotica
Lobelia dortmanna
Peter Mazell
John Lightfoot
"Long Leg'd Plover" (black-winged stilt) in Flora Scotica, one of a few birds in the book. Drawn by Moses Griffith; engraved by Peter Mazell
black-winged stilt
A miniature of Basingwerk Abbey from a unique set of eight extra-illustrated volumes of Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Wales owned by the National Library of Wales.
Basingwerk Abbey
Thomas Pennant
Another image of Basingwerk Abbey from Pennant's A Tour in Wales.
Nannau painted by Moses Griffith.
Old Nannau sketch by Moses Griffith 1797, built by Huw Nanney, circa. 1697.
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators

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