- Title:
Caernarfon Castle
- Former Title(s):
Caernarvon Castle [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1745
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 25 1/2 x 41 5/16 inches (64.8 x 104.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.174
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.174FR
- Subject Terms:
- artist | bay (body of water) | castle | costume | drawing | fortress | hills | houses | landscape | men | rowboats | ruins | sailboats | smoke
- Associated Places:
- Caernarfon | Caernarfon Bay | Caernarfon Castle | Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire | Cymru | Menai Strait | United Kingdom | Wales
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4996
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Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Caernarvon Castle, Scottish Art Review, vol. 11, 1968, p. 4, J10 Sc87 (SML) [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : Old pictures, the property of a gentleman; also pictures and drawings from numerous private collections and different sources : 3 June 1901, Christie's, June 3, 1901, p. 22, lot 145, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953, pp. 93-94,109,, pl. 32a, NJ18 W72 C55 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp, 250, 251, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Megan Cullen, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850 : [exhibition] label copy. Yale Center for British Art, April 12-June 25, 1989., , Yale Center for British Art, [New Haven, 1989, p. 42, no. 95, ND1354.4 F351 1989 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p.76, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p.141, no. III.1, pl. 116, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Luke Herrmann, British landscape painting of the eighteenth century., Faber & Faber, London, 1973, p. 57, pl. 49b, ND1354.4 H47 1973 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 68, no. 21, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Engelse landschapschilders van Gainsborough tot Turner, [Deze tentoonstelling werd samengesteld uit schilderijen in Britse verzamelingen. Zij werd georganiseerd door de British Council in samenwerking met het Museum Boymans] , Rotterdam, 1955, no. 69, ND1354 M87 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Michael Neuman, Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, Pearson, Boston, 2013, pp. 391-92, fig. 14.13, N6415.B3 N48 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 34, 78, no. 21, fig. 21, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 189-90, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Graham Reynolds, Masterpieces in Mourning, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 4158, December 10, 1982, p.1364, Film S748 (SML) Also Available Online in TLS Historical Archive [ORBIS]
Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 12, no. 95, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA) [YCBA]
David H. Solkin, Exhibition Catalogue Review, Apollo, vol. 251,no. 117, January 1983, pp. 39-45, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
David H. Solkin, Richard Wilson, the landscape of reaction, Tate Publishing, London, 1982, pp. 18, 28, 148, no. 7, col. pl. 2, no. 7, NJ18 W72 S65 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Spencer-Longhurst, Paul, with Kate Lowry and David Solkin, Richard Wilson Online : A Digital Catalogue Raisonne, , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2014, no. P12A, http://www.richardwilsononline.ac.uk/index.php?WINID=1582051040261 [Website]
Tate Gallery, London [Exhibit], Magazine Antiques, vol. 122, December 1982, p. 1216, NK1125 A3 OVERSIZE (HAAS) [ORBIS]
The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 28, cat. 23, V2722 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Treasure houses of Britain, five hundred years of private patronage and art collecting. , National Gallery of Art, [Washington, D.C., 1985, o. 387, no. 318, N5245 T74 1985 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, Wales, New Haven, 2014, p. 20, V2519 (YCBA) [YCBA]