Powers, Alan (Artist). - THE MARCHES A Picturesque Tour. Accompanied by a specially written sequence of Sonnets by Peter Levi.

Merivale Editions, N.d. c.[1989]. Eight lithographs (six in colour and two in monochrome Lancaut and Flint Castle) each measuring 10 x 14 inches, paper size 12.5 x 16.5 inches. With colour printed prospectus. Shobdon with light marginal crease. Each individually loosely enclosed in bi-fold blue/red card wrapps., titles lettered in black to upper wrapp., with Levi’s Poem printed to inner upper wrapp., publication and limitation details together with Powers’ architectural note to rear lower wrapp. ¶ Each from the Limited Edition of 150 Copies, each print is numbered, titled and signed by the Artist. According to the prospectus ‘Numbers 1-75 are complete portfolios of the eight lithographs with text. Numbers 1-12 are special copies containing progressive proofs for one of the lithographs, Numbers 76-150 are available as seperate prints.’ Alan Powers lithographic tour of the Welsh Borders accompanied by a specially written sequence of sonnets by Peter Levi. Inspired by the great colour plate travel books published in the 18th and 19th centuries and by John Piper’s ‘Brighton Aquatints’ published in 1939. Power’s lithographs with Levi’s poems are conceived as a tour beginning at Lancaut (108/150), just above Chepstow, and travelling northwards via Capel-y-Ffin (174/150), Hay Bluff (146/150), Shobdon (80/150), Montgomery (148/150), Powys Castle (128-150), and Chirk (149/150) to Flint Castle (49/150) on the Dee Estuary.

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