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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Jagoman on Wednesday 04 January 23 16:37 GMT (UK)
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Hi All,
Help needed to locate Castle on the dial of Long Case Clock. The clock was made in Tetbury by John Pitt prior to his death in 1859.
The painting might well be a Capriccio painting (Fantasy place).
Many thanks
Jagoman
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Broadway Tower in the Cotswolds maybe, possibly Amberley Castle.
Both have the pair of towers, Amberley has more to it.
S_L
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Is it on an island? Or a peninsula?
It reminds me of Isola Di Loretto, but its towers are square.
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The mountains in the top view might put it in Wales or Scotland - and is it on an island, or a promontory next to water? The 4 smaller views look as though they are of the same place, but it's all a bit small. Any chance of a larger picture of just the top view? And/or each of the smaller ones?
(Something strange has happened with the formatting of the image. The horizontal and vertical dimensions seem to have got swapped so it's distorted, but if you right click and view in a new tab the proportions are correct.)
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Hopefully this is a better image. I thought it could be Kidwelly Castle but not sure.
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Here is another image
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Plus another image
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Plus another image
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If anything, I’d say the nearest is Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness but I suspect that it’s purely fictitious.
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I think it's more like Kidwelly (reply #4) than Urquhart (#8), but I suspect it's not intended to be an exact representation. The pictures are very similar but there are differences in several of the details, so I wonder if the artist may have been working from a single source image (which may or may not have been of a real place) and altering it a little each time.
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to me, it looks more like Scottish than Welsh scenery (having lived in the Highlands and spent my early life in Wales) but I think it is most likely to be a composite.
My mother had a watercolour of the Trossachs in a similar style.
Gadget
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I'll freely admit that the castle itself looks like Kidwelly but by no stretch of the imagination does the scenery match; and Kidwelly only has a river and not a lake. As I said - purely fictitious!