Hen Gerddi Fy Ngwlad / Favourite Songs Of Wales

Inside the image.

A square album cover centres on a seated, middle-aged man shown from the waist up. He occupies most of the left and central areas, turned slightly towards the viewer and looking out with a mild, composed expression. His short, wavy hair is light brown with golden highlights. He wears a loose white shirt with an open collar; its broad sleeves and folds catch the light. One forearm rests across his body, with a hand near his waist. In the lower-left foreground, a large tan, folded sheet or booklet rises diagonally across his lap and partly obscures his lower torso. A dark, reflective surface and narrow gold-toned trim run along the bottom edge beneath him.

The background is a smooth, graphic field: near-black at the upper left, with broad diagonal bands of dark red and brown leading into a warm reddish-brown area on the right. The man's pale shirt and face stand out sharply against these darker colours. The portrait has a softly blended, somewhat sepia-toned photographic appearance, with bright highlights on his face, hair and shirt and deeper shadows around his left side and beneath his arm. The image fills the square without a visible border.

At the upper right, a fine white cursive signature-style inscription stretches across the dark and red background; the lettering is difficult to read confidently. Directly below it, “STUART BURROWS” appears in white, uppercase serif lettering, with small capitals and larger initial letters. Near the bottom, over the dark area beside the man's waist, the title is set in two centred lines of pale serif capitals: “HEN GERDDI FY N GWLAD” above “FAVOURITE SONGS OF WALES”. The top line is larger and uses Welsh spelling; the English line is slightly smaller. The lettering sits close to the lower edge and overlaps the dark background and the edge of the portrait.