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Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle
(c. 1760-1763)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 96.0 × 131.0 cm
- Accession Number
- 2055-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Although it depicts a Welsh scene, this painting clearly reflects the years that Richard Wilson spent in Italy in the 1750s. The composition and imagery – the lake, the castle, the trees, the boys fishing and the distant mountain – recall the work of the pioneering landscape artists who painted in Italy in the seventeenth century. Artists such as Nicolas Poussin, Gaspard Dughet and especially Claude Lorrain drew inspiration from the Roman campagna, the flat, open plain surrounding the city.
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- castles (fortifications) fishing lakes (bodies of water) Peris, Llyn (lake) riverine landscapes ruins United Kingdom (nation) Wales (country)
- Frame
- English, 18th century, surface not original