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Smugglers at St. Govan's Head

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

c.1830

Artist

Henry Gastineau (c. 1791-1876)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour, scratching out, stopping out and gum arabic. St. Govan's (or Gowan's) Head is a promontory at the south extremity of Pembrokeshire, six miles south of Pembroke itself. Hidden by the rocks to the right of the present watercolour stands the ancient chapel of St. Govan's ' this view relates closely to a watercolour by Gastineau entitled 'St. Gowan's Chapel' which was engraved for 'South Wales Illustrated', published in 1830. In the engraving however, Gastineau, presumably for picturesque reasons, does not include the chapel itself and the viewpoint is slightly different. Gastineau exhibited 'Chapel at St. Gowan's, Pembrokeshire' at the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1844, no.195.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales

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