Water Fall near Dolghelly, from "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797" 1800

John Hill's "Water Fall near Dolghelly" is a black and white etching from his 1800 publication *Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales*. The work depicts the ruins of Tintern Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded in the 12th century, with two figures in the foreground. Hill's work captures the romantic mood of the ruin, emphasizing the natural world that has overtaken the built structure. This is a representative example of "picturesque" aesthetic, a popular artistic and literary genre of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, that emphasized the beauty of nature and its impact on the human psyche.