Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim, Northern IrelandSigned lower left: A. Nicholl R.H.A.Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour, scratching out and stopping out35.9 by 54.1 cm., 14 by 21 1/4 in.Dunluce Castle lies perched dramatically on a small outcrop of cliffs, with sheer drops down to the sea and attached to the mainland by a bridge. The present castle was begun circa 1500 by the McQuillan family and added to and altered through the 16th and 17th centuries by the MacDonnall family who seized control of the castle in the mid 16th Century. It is thought that the castle served as the inspiration for C. S. Lewis's 'Cair Paravel' in his Narnia stories.){kind=link}
Andrew Nicholl R.H.S. (1804-1886)
Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Signed lower left: A. Nicholl R.H.A.
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour, scratching out and stopping out
35.9 by 54.1 cm., 14 by 21 1/4 in.
Dunluce Castle lies perched dramatically on a small outcrop of cliffs, with sheer drops down to the sea and attached to the mainland by a bridge. The present castle was begun circa 1500 by the McQuillan family and added to and altered through the 16th and 17th centuries by the MacDonnall family who seized control of the castle in the mid 16th Century. It is thought that the castle served as the inspiration for C. S. Lewis's 'Cair Paravel' in his Narnia stories.