Caernarvon Castle, North Wales

Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1733-1794)
Caernarvon Castle, North Wales

Signed lower left: S.H. Grimm fecit 1777
Pen and black ink and watercolour over traces of pencil on laid Whatman paper, with pen and ink border

Provenance:
J. Collingwood Stewart, Newcastle, 1941;
A Deceased Estate

Literature:
Mary Rotha Clay, Samuel Hieronymous Grimm, 1941, p.76, ill. p.85

Engraved:
By W. Walker and W. Angus, 1780, with minor differences

This view of the castle is taken from the far bank of the river Seiont on which the castle is situated, overlooking the Menai Straits. It shows the Eagle Tower, the grandest of the castle's towers, in the western corner.