Crowdsourcing the Extra Illustrated Tours of Wales and Scotland

Pennant's Extra Illustrated Tours of Scotland and Wales, written and compiled during the 18th century, include unique drawings and paintings by Moses Griffith, John Ingleby and other artists. The tours influenced many contemporary writers and travellers, and offer a major, and still largely untapped, resource for modern scholarship. This crowdsourcing project will collect data on unique images of places and buildings (many now vanished) in NLW’s bespoke extra-illustrated Tours of Wales and Scotland and build on the library's major investment in digitising these resources. The crowdsourced data will be used to generate links, for the first time, from digital editions of the Tours to the associated images hosted at the National Library of Wales website.