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- Title:
Mountain Panorama in Wales, Cader Idris
- Date:
- 1803
- Medium:
- Graphite with black chalk on medium, slightly-textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 7/16 x 17 1/16 inches (26.5 x 43.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, in artist's hand lower left: "Fine weather wind S.E. Clouds coming towards me ^ |all the morning| but dissolved into transparent atmosphere as fast as they came so that I had constant blue sky over head"; in graphite, in artist's hand, lower left: "Sun shine yet the hills came [forward?] darken"; in graphite, in artist's hand upper right: "Sun over here| Clouds Colour of Drawing paper"; in graphite, verso, lower center: "D1797/ Cornelius Varley 1781-1873| Cader Idris, 1803| [cf.?] Sir Robert [White's?] Cader Idris from Llanelltyd, 1803| Heather Hubbard, "Some Victorian Droughtsmen" Plate 12| LGD"; on back in graphite, lower right: "D 1797"
Watermark, center: fleur de lis over shield, over "G R"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5390
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cattle | clouds | field | hills | house | landscape | panorama | river | sailboat
- Associated Places:
- Cader Idris | Cymru | United Kingdom | Wales
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14832
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