1981 Screenprint and colour aquatint, with etching, on white wove BFK Rives paper
365 x 250 mm. Purchase: The artist 1982
Number 7 of an edition of 35. Printed by the artist at the Visual Art Department, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth. Part of the third edition of a set of four prints created in response to the poetry of the Rev. Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant (1913-1997), a poet, sculptor, academic and Anglican vicar at Llanddewibrefi between 1974 and 1978. All four images join together to form one landscape. The gravestone of Ann Williams is at Llanddewibrefi
Dyfed landscape and a poem. An etching of a barren landscape with a grove of trees, a cottage and a gravestone. Dust-ground aquatint with some etched line. Blue-grey used for clouds. Printed in black and blue-grey. Text on image, on the gravestone, 'ANN WILLIAMS OF PANT Y BLAWD DIED 10 JULY 1808 AGED 56'. Below the etching is the following three verse poem by Moelwyn Merchant in blue; MS/ANN WILLIA/OF PANT Y BLAWD/DIED 10TH JULY 1808/AGED 56 THOUGH THE ACRES TEEMED,/LIFE WAS STUNTED, BITTER, CONFINED. DEATH LED TO A NARROW GRAVE/CRAMMED AT THE PATH'S EDGE./THE STONE NOT WIDE ENOUGH/TO TAKE HER NAME WITH GRACE
