The bard [art original].Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist[approximately 1780?]engDrawing of a subject from Thomas Gray's poem 'The Bard': The bard shown standing on the side of a cliff at right playing harp, his cloak, beard and hair blown by the wind, a group of Edward I's soldiers pointing towards him from the opposite side of the river belowTitle devised by cataloger.Unsigned.The oil painting is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. It was later engraved by Hall (figures) and Middiman (landscape), published in 1784 as the frontispiece to Edward Jones's Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards (London : Richard Rees, 1825).Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.