Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (14 x 41 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink, lower left: "Carnarvon Castle North Wales"; in graphite, verso, upper center: "180[7?]" (circled); in graphite, verso, center: (numerical computations) | "aux" | "Carnarvon Castle" | "No. Wales"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "Thomas Rowlandson | Carnarvon Castle for the Earl- | Work date 1794"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.320
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
trees | people | ships | shore (landform) | castle | buildings | architectural subject | coast | landscape | water | figures
Associated Places:
Europe | Caernarfon Castle | United Kingdom | Caernarfon | Cymru | Carnarvon Castle | Wales | Gwynedd | Caernarfon Castle | Caernarvon
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Publications:
Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 11, no. 80, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)