Weobley Castle, Gower, Glamorganshire
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Weobley Castle, Gower, Glamorganshire is a 1940 watercolor by Mona Moore, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a crumbling stone castle with a tall archway entrance. The walls look weathered, and the roof is missing chunks. In front, a flock of geese scatter across a flat, grassy field under a cloudy sky. The artist used soft watercolor washes to show light and shadow. The geese add life to an otherwise empty scene. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of this artist’s work.
A monochrome drawing by Mona Moore from 1940 depicts Weobley Castle in Gower, Glamorganshire, rendered in dramatic chiaroscuro with a flock of geese positioned in the foreground. Created as part of the *Recording Britain* project, a wartime initiative funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by the Ministry of Labour and National Service, the work aimed to document places of cultural and historical significance across Britain. The scheme, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, sought to preserve a visual record of landscapes and buildings amid fears of wartime destruction and rapid modernization. The…
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Mona Moore painted quiet watercolours of Welsh villages and coastline in the 1940s.
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