Knaresborough Castle
A landscape oil painting of a series of woodlands with a foreground clearing, encapsulating a view of Knaresborough castle, looming in the background, in north Yorkshire. The fortress overlooks the river Nidd, and was build circa 1100, by a Norman baron. Hugh de Moreville used this place for refuge, after assassinating Thomas Becket of Canterbury
Picture No
13751103
Media ID
45179158
Size
3801px x 2989px
(4.3MB)
Credit
© CLM Archive Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Oil painting from Colour Magazine Volume 13 September 1920, by Frederick Francis Foottet (1850-1935)
Date
circa 1920
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1100 Assassinating Becket Build Canterbury Clearing Foottet Knaresborough Looming Nidd Overlooks Refuge Woodlands
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