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Signed on border lower left: Moses Griffith delin 1776 and inscribed with title: KENIWORTH (sic) CASTLE
Pen and grey ink and wash over pencil on laid paper
Image 22.6 by 35.8 cm., 8 ¾ by 13 ¾ inches
Provenance:
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798);
By descent to his granddaughter who married the 17th Earl of Denbigh;
With Michael Appleby, October 1962;
Private Collection until 2014
Founded in 1120 in the town of the same name, Kenilworth Castle was extended by John of Gaunt in the late fourteenth century and then again by the Earl of Leicester. It was destroyed by Parliamentarian forces in 1649 during the Civil War to prevent it being used as a Royalist stronghold and has been a ruin since then.
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Inscribed verso: Llandegai Church & Bridge
Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil on laid paper
22.8 by 29.8cm., 9 by 11 inches
Llandegai lies 1 miles south-east of Bangor. In the far right distance Penrhyn Castle is just visible in the trees. At this date it was still a medieval manor house before being transformed into a 19th century neo-Norman fantasy castle by the architect Thomas Hopper in 1827 by another member of the Pennant family, George Dawkins Pennant.
Sold signed with initials lower centre, dated 1806 and inscribed with title
watercolour over pencil
15.4 by 27.3cm., 6 by 10 3/4 inches
Llanidan is a parish sitting on the banks of the Menai Straits in south-east Anglesey which includes the
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Signed on border lower left: Moses Griffith delin/t and numbered 67 in pencil
Pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour on laid paper with original pen and ink border
20.9 by 32.1cm., 8 1/4 by 12 1/2 inches
The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, four miles west of
Provenance:
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798);
By descent to his granddaughter who married the 17th Earl of Denbigh;
Viscount Feilding, his sale, Christie?s, 5th June 1938;
With
Iolo Williams;
With Andrew Clayton-Payne;
Private Collection until 2008
Exhibited:
February 1939, no.69
