Carey Castle in Pembrokeshire.

Original engraved aquatint & etching print, slight marks to outer margins. This is plate X out of XII of Sandby's -Twelve Views of South Wales- were the result of his 1771 tour of South Wales with Sir Joseph Banks and the Hon. Charles Greville, to whom he dedicated his set. Among the first aquatints published in England, the twelve views launched the popularity of Wales as a picturesque sketching location, coming into fashion with the beginning of the Romantic Movement. View of Carew Castle in South Wales. The castle stands on a strategic position on a low ridge overlooking the Carew River. A timber castle was first built here by Gerald of Windsor in c.1100 but the stone castle depicted here was built by Sir Nicholas de Carew and successive generations of his family in the 13th and 14th centuries. The castle is built around a square courtyard; there are circular towers with square bases on the west side and more regular circular towers on the east side. The castle complex included two gatehouses, kitchens and a chapel tower.