Another Prospect of Caernarvon, taken on the East side
This print offers an expansive view of Caernarfon Castle, a structure in northwest Wales that Edward I began to develop in the thirteenth century. Extensive city walls were completed in 1330. Here, the keep and towers appear at left, the town within the fortified walls at right, and the sea beyond. Cultivated fields and a grassy expanse fill in the foreground, dotted with a man, woman, two children, two hunters and dogs. At right, a road moves towards dwellings clustered near the turreted city gate.
Artwork Details
- Title: Another Prospect of Caernarvon, taken on the East side
- Artist: Drawn, etched and published by John Boydell (British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London)
- Date: 1750
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 11 7/8 × 17 13/16 in. (30.1 × 45.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 19 1/4 in. (34.2 × 48.9 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
- Object Number: 61.591.42
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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