The Scholarly Publishing Office and the Special Collections Library are pleased to announce the release of Enchanting Ruin: Tintern Abbey and Romantic Tourism in Wales, the latest in a series of web exhibits.

Both the virtual and physical exhibits were curated by Professor Suzanne Matheson of the University of Windsor. In her words, "This exhibit recovers the richness and complexity of the Abbey as a place, destination, and symbol in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ... [and] provides the viewer with a number of different lenses for examining the Abbey and its setting in the Romantic period."

The site also contains images from multi-disciplinary artist Alex McKay, many of which were taken through a Claude mirror, an optical device popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly among tourists and landscape artists.

The exhibit is hosted by the Special Collections Library and is freely available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/tintern.