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View of Cader Idris, Wales

Maker

(artist)
1793-1861

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1815

Medium

graphite, brown ink, watercolour, with scratching out on wove paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 30.3 cm
Width: 47.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4553

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

Label Text

At the time of Danby's visit to Wales (probably in 1814) the importance of glacial action - the movement of frozen water - in the formation of distinctive features of mountain landscape, such as the summit of Cader Idris, was not recognised. Danby's choice of viewpoint suggests that he wanted to encourage associations with the volcanic lakes of the Roman countryside, and that he erroneously believed that Cader Idris itself was volcanic in origin, that is, the result of the action of fire.

Provenance

A.W. Rous (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 21 May 1951; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 20 October 1951 (£20); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Francis Danby, 1793-1861, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; Tate Gallery, London, 05/11/1988-09/04/1989

Bristol school of artists, Francis Danby and painting in Bristol, 1810-1840, Bristol, 1973

Literature

Greenacre, Francis, Tate Britain (Gallery), and City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Francis Danby, 1793-1861 (London, 1998)
no. 64

Adams, Eric, Francis Danby: varieties of poetic landscape, New Haven and London, 1973
77

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 16

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso: left centre edge: "J WHATMAN".

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, on rock at lower left, brown ink, signed by the artist: "FDanby".

Collector's mark: none.

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