Fortified Entrance to a Welsh Town (East Gate of Caernarvon) ca. 1802 John Varley Varley’s early mastery of watercolor is beautifully demonstrated in a work that centers on the massive east gate of Caernarvon, a walled castle and town in North Wales. In 1802, the artist toured the region for a second time with his brother Cornelius. Two years later he would join the Society of Painters in Water Colours—formed to raise the medium's status—and may have exhibited this drawing there in 1805 as "View of Carnarvon Walls." In the first decade of the 19th century, the Napoleonic wars kept British arti

Fortified Entrance to a Welsh Town (East Gate of Caernarvon) ca. 1802 John Varley Varley’s early mastery of watercolor is beautifully demonstrated in a work that centers on the massive east gate of Caernarvon, a walled castle and town in North Wales. In 1802, the artist toured the region for a second time with his brother Cornelius. Two years later he would join the Society of Painters in Water Colours—formed to raise the medium's status—and may have exhibited this drawing there in 1805 as "View of Carnarvon Walls." In the first decade of the 19th century, the Napoleonic wars kept British artists from traveling on the Continent and encouraged them to explore their own Fortified Entrance to a Welsh Town (East Gate of Caernarvon). John Varley (British, London 1778–1842 London). ca. 1802. Watercolor and graphite. Drawings

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