Featured Location On Watercolor

No signature found. Any suggestions on the location?
Thanks

 

Ireland or the Cotswolds? It's someplace where they thatched roofs, and it looks like some place in the UK or former UK.

 

Here's a list of town walls in England and Wales. Might be of help. (But gables seen through the gate look more continental.)

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

Debora

 

It might not be anywhere. The town roofs puzzled me a bit too, but this might be a fantasy piece and not actually be anywhere.

 

I agree, somewhere in England.
The medieval gate could once have belonged to a castle or monastery, and may not have survived.
There are parts along the east coast that have some Dutch and Flemish influence. I am thinking particularly of Norfolk and Suffolk (East Anglia) which have lovely villages and towns, and cottages with thickly thatched roofs. I don't recognize it, but I haven't visited every village and town in East Anglia.

 

I agree, I think it might be a composed seen or a composed seen made up from different locations.

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take it out of the frame in case there is some info on the back or signature along the edges.

 

Feels more Irish to me. It could just be be Kilmallock, though I'm not sure all the details quite match.
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317727

 

By George, I think you're right. Here's an older engraving.

Debora

 

That's from the other side, within the town. But it does show the kind of architecture. Cattle wandering in and out of doorways....

 

This, also from within the town was drawn by WF Wakeman in c.1840. It shows the gate standing to about the same height as in the watercolour (it was later restored) and there do seem to be single-storey thatched cottages beyond the gate, albeit on the other side of the road.



Source: page 122 of this PDF: http://irishwalledtownsnetwork.ie/assets/Kilmallock Town Walls Conservation and Management Plan.pdf

 

It does look like an artist's interpretation I think.



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Here's the back.

 

The first one seems clear enough, given the discussion so far: Gate of Kilmal[lock] Co. Limer[ick].