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View of Cader Idris, Wales

Maker

(artist)
1781-1873

Title

View of Cader Idris, Wales

Date of Production

1803

Medium

graphite and grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.9 cm
Width: 44.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2835

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

by descent to the artist's grandson, Aflred Henry Varley; his sale, Squire Gallery (London), March 1937, no. 46; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Andrews, Malcolm, The search for the picturesque: landscape aesthetics and tourism in Britain, 1760-1800, Stanford, 1989
p. 141
fig.44 on p. 141

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

Hubbard, Hesketh, Some Victorian Draughtsmen, Cambridge, 1944
pl. 12

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, black ink: Cader Idris from Llanelltyd NW C Varley 1803.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite: mynudd. moel.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: Narrow x French / C v S [this line crossed out] / 23 x 17 .

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, stamped twice in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Watermark: centre: DURHAM & Co (not in Heawood).

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