Silhouette portrait of The Bard of Snowdon; author of Beaumaris Bay and other Poems.

Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon (1752 - 1835), was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem Beaumaris Bay, which was published in 1800. He died in Chester in 1835, having survived his wife by a year. He is buried at St. John's churchyard in Chester. An original silhouette on cut black paper, gilded highlights, mounted in a wood frame. A silhouette image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Traditionally, a silhouette is a form of artwork, the term originating in the 18th century and applied to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card..