View of Cader Idris, Wales
Maker
(artist)
1781-1873
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
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
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).
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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