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The Summit of Cader Idris Mountain
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Edward (1724-1774) & Michael 'Angelo' Rooker (1746-1801) after Wilson
The Summit of Cader Idris Mountain
Published 1775
Line engraving and etching
395 x 527 mm
15 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.
1863,0725.633
E22B
A mountain top with a pool surrounded by a natural semi-circle of rock which peaks in the centre A second slope rises on the right and there is a view across a mountain range to the left, beyond a broad chasm. A man is shown looking through a telescope, another man is sitting on the right with an open paper and a third man holds his horse.
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Genius of Wedgwood, June-September 1996
Lettered below image with title in English and French, and production detail: 'Richd. Wilson pinxt', 'E. & M. Rooker Sculpser[un]t'
E90 George Cooke after Wilson Cader Idris, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
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P153 Llyn Cau, Cader Idris, Tate, London
P153A Llyn Cau, Cader Idris, Private Collection, Wales
P153B Llyn Cau, Cader Idris, Private Collection, England
This print is one of the set, Six Views in North and South Wales, all after Wilson, published by John Boydell in 1775. As Edward Rooker died in November 1774 the plate was presumably completed by his son.
R. Gough, Anecdotes of British Topography, London 1768, p. 603; Edwards 1808, p. 88