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Vosper's 1908 watercolour Salem is one of the most recognised images of the Traditional Welsh costume. There are about 700 images dated 1770–1900 in which Welsh costume is clearly depicted and there are a similar number of early 20th century photographs, mostly postcards, some based on earlier photographs while others were comic.
The Red Dragon (Welsh: Y Ddraig Goch) of Wales is a symbol of Wales that appears in "Cyfranc Lludd a Lleuelys", Historia Brittonum, Historia Regnum Britianniae, and the Welsh triads. According to legend, Vortigern ( Welsh : Gwrtheyrn ) King of the Celtic Britons from Powys is interrupted whilst attempting to build fort at Dinas Emrys.
The Welsh hat (Welsh: Het Gymreig) worn by women as part of Welsh national costume is a tall hat, similar to a top hat, or the capotain. It is still worn by Welsh folk-dance women, and schoolgirls, in Wales on St David's Day , but rarely on other occasions.
The gwyllgi (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡwɪɬɡi]; compound noun of either gwyllt "wild" or gwyll "twilight" + ci "dog" [1]) is a mythical dog from Wales that appears as a frightful apparition of a mastiff or Black Wolf (similar to a Dire wolf) with baleful breath and blazing red eyes. [2] It is the Welsh incarnation of the black dog figure of ...
Tylwyth Teg (Middle Welsh for "Fair Family"; [1] Welsh pronunciation: [ˈtəlʊi̯θ teːg]) is the most usual term in Wales for the mythological creatures corresponding to the fairy folk of Welsh and Irish folklore Aos Sí. Other names for them include Bendith y Mamau ("Blessing of the Mothers"), Gwyllion and Ellyllon. [2]
Mary White (1926–2013), ceramic artist; Lucy Gwendolen Williams (1870–1955) Claudia Williams (born 1933), painter; Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960), portrait painter; Annie Williams (born 1942), still life watercolour painter who grew up in Wales; Sue Williams (born 1956), visual artist; Caroline Catherine Wilkinson (1822–1881)
The Bard, 1774, by Thomas Jones (1742–1803). Welsh art is the traditions in the visual arts associated with Wales and its people.Most art found in, or connected with, Wales is essentially a regional variant of the forms and styles of the rest of the British Isles, a very different situation from that of Welsh literature.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: British: Welsh This category exists only as a container for other categories of Welsh women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.