Fortified Entrance to a Welsh Town (East Gate of Caernarvon)

ca. 1802

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 in. × 13 in. (22 × 33 cm)
Collection no.: 2018.589
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

John Varley. Fortified Entrance to a Welsh Town (East Gate of Caernarvon). John Varley; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman, 2018. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Fortified Entrance to a Welsh Town (East Gate of Caernarvon) — John Varley. ca. 1802.

Medium: Watercolor and graphite. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 11/16 in. × 13 in. (22 × 33 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman, 2018.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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