BROADLEY H* – Dolbadarn Castle

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H* Broadley was a member of the Baines family and clearly had a delightful ability.

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BROADLEY H* – Dolbadarn Castle

BROADLEY H* – Dolbadarn Castle

BROADLEY H* – Dolbadarn Castle – annotations

TITLE: Dolbadarn Castle

PRICE: £135.00     Ref: 20170126001     VWE

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SPECIFICATION:

MEDIUM: Watercolour on paper laid on an album page

APPROXIMATE SIZE:

Painting: 170 mm x 250 mm             6 3/4” x 9 7/8”

Frame / Mount: Unmounted and unframed

ANNOTATIONS: Signed in pencil beneath right

Inscribed below Dolbadarn Castle – Auctioneer’s label verso states Baines Family of Bell Hall

THE STORY:
Every good painting should have a story to go with it, something to stimulate the imagination.

It seems that, like so many of Llewelyn The Great’s castles, Dolbadarn, built in the early 13^th century was to be taken by Edward 1^st in the late 13^th century. Dolbardarn was in a very strategic place in military terms. It was at the bottom of the Llanberis Pass, overlooking Llyn Padarn. It appears that Edward’s army was vastly superior in numbers to that of Llewelyn. I have just read that Edward had 7000 men, a vast army by comparison with the army the Welsh could raise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbadarn_Castle

The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet (can be bought in one volume) by Edith Pargeter is a good read and tells pretty much all. Edith Pargeter, under her pen name of Ellis Peters wrote the Brother Cadfael series of novels which are also a brilliant read.

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