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Re: Castle Recognition
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 05 January 23 14:12 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Castle Recognition
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 05 January 23 15:34 GMT (UK) »
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.


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Re: Castle Recognition
« Reply #11 on: Friday 06 January 23 14:43 GMT (UK) »
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!