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View of Cader Idris, Wales

Maker

(artist)
1768-1847

Title

View of Cader Idris, Wales

Date of Production

1803

Medium

graphite on wove paper, all four corners cut

Dimensions

Height: 24.1 cm
Width: 37.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3962

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

Archdeacon F.H.D. Smythe; given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Joshua Cristall, 1768-1847, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1975 (Feb.-Apr.)

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 15

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, left centre, can't read end of date: "J.Lloyd / 18[...]" (Churchill had a J LLoyd with a watermark date of 1805, which would be later than the date signed on the recto of the drawing).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, light brown ink, located in artist's hand: "Cader IdrisS and below that signed and dated in a darker brown ink: "Joshua Cristall 1803.-". Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Verso: lower right edge, grey-brown ink: "Cader Idris from near Tallyllyn, Merionethshire".

Collector's mark: none.

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