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The Vale of Llangollen, with Castell Dinas Bran

Maker

(Artists)
1743-1801

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1798

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 33.3 cm
Width: 59.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.75

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Michael Angelo Rooker worked in London as a scene painter at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In the 1790s he regularly exhibited topographical watercolours which were the product of summer walking tours. In general he sought out ancient ruins rather than scenery for its own sake, but here the emphasis is on the mountainous landscape; the remains of the thirteenth-century castle of Dinas Bran are barely visible on the distant hill, the steepness of which Rooker greatly exaggerates.

Provenance

Sotheby's (London), 22 November 1961, lot 9; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967), 25 November 1961 (£210); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974 ...More

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973 ...Less

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 21
ill. on p. 115

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 8

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 41

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: small circle (9 mm diameter, not found in Heawood)l

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, brown ink, signed by the artist on rock at lower right corner, first 3 letters monogram: "MARooker".

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