J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

Made with the page turned horizontally, the drawing is continued on folio 58 recto opposite (D02085). The quickest route from Conwy to Penmaenmawr was along the shore, but that was often impassable, and the inland road crosses the Sychnant Pass, a dramatic gorge among wild hills, just south of Penmaen-bach, a mile or so west of Conwy. It is now bypassed by the main coast road. It seems that Turner followed this inland route as far as the moors above the headland of Penmaenmawr, and stopped to draw at the site of the stone circle there; see folio 55 recto (D02079).