Druidic Awenydd (Bardic disciple) and novice, from the pre-Roman era. In the background are British straw-roofed wooden cabins. The disciple carries a cup and a dove, bird of good omen. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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