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A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris

A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris

c. 1850
(British, 1789–1862)
Sheet: 48.9 x 70.3 cm (19 1/4 x 27 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 49.5 x 70.8 cm (19 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

In 1808, William Turner was elected the then youngest member of London's Society of Painters in Water Colours.

Description

As a young man, William Turner removed himself from the competitive London art world and returned to his native Oxford to teach and paint in solitude. This retreat may have been because he shared the same name as his contemporary Joseph Mallord William Turner, or it may have been prompted by his apparently retiring personality. He painted prolifically and traveled widely in Britain in search of subjects. This watercolor describes the dramatic mountain scenery of north Wales. The close-up view of the hillside and sheep in the left foreground juxtaposed with the sweeping vista of the mountains of Snowdonia invites a comparison of the minute with the infinite.
  • ?-2003
    Private collection, England
    2003-2004
    (Lowell Libson, London)
    2009-2010
    (Lowell Libson, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    2010-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Libson, Lowell. Lowell Libson Ltd: The First Five Years. London: Lowell Libson, 2007. Mentioned: p. 108; Reproduced: p. 9
    Cleveland Museum of Art, "Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Newest Acquisitions," September 7, 2010, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Mann, C. Griffith. "Acquisitions 2010." Cleveland Art (March-April 2011): 10-27. Reproduced: pp. 9 (detail), 16
    Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 92-95, 149, no. 31; Reproduced: cover, pp. 93, 94-95
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 03, May/June 2013 Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3 archive.org
  • British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2010.147