- Title:
Caernarvon Castle
- Date:
- ca. 1780
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 20 3/4 × 28 3/4 inches (52.7 × 73 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, lower center:"[handwritten, underlined] Cardiff Castle, with Figures Digging Amongst Ruins | Oil Painting by Joseph Farington. R. A. | (1747-1821) | signed | [not underlined, typed] P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. | (Established 1760) | Experts, Valuers and Dealers | Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings | by the | Old and Modern Masters. | 14, Old Bond Street, London, W.1. | Telegrams: | Colnaghi, Piccy, London. | [handwritten] PM #2717 | [typed] Telephone: Hyde Park 1943-44."; lower right: Yale Center for British Art and | British Studies | Artist Farrington, Joseph | Title Cardiff Castle | Medium | Size Accession no B19[...].118 | Credit line Yale Center for British Art, P[...]on | Collection"; lower right: "[...] Mellon, Mr. Paul | [...] Farrington, Joseph | [...] Cardiff Castle | National Gallery of Art PM 2717"; upper center: "L 278722 | [logo] | Allied Van Lines | 51 | Pat.No. 3,489,433"
Signed in black paint, lower center: "J [...] Farrington"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.118
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.118FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | boys | castle | crenellations | people | ruins | shovels | turrets (towers) | workers
- Associated Places:
- Caernarfon Castle | Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire | Caernarvon | Cymru | Gwynedd | Seiont | United Kingdom | Wales
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:340
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 92-93, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 92, 141, no. III.2, pl. 72, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 22, cat. 15, V2722