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    Snowden Hill and the adjacent Country in North Wales

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    Snowden Hill and the adjacent Country in North Wales
    Snowden Hill and the adjacent Country in North Wales
    Snowden Hill and the adjacent Country in North Wales
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    William Woollett (1735-1785) after Wilson
    Title
    Snowden Hill and the adjacent Country in North Wales
    Date
    Published by Boydell 17 July 1775
    Medium
    Line engraving and etching with hand colouring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: Sheet: 400 x 543 mm
    Imperial: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 3/8 in.
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.14577
    Wilson Online Reference
    E30A
    Description
    Landscape with a view of a peaked mountain between two other mountains, across a lake, with a few boats on the water and two men fishing in the foreground. There is a woman standing beside them and gnarled trees to either side.
    Provenance
    Acquired 1977
    Signature/inscription
    Lettered below the image:
    [1] Lower left: 'Richard Wilson Pinxt.' | 'SNOWDEN HILL, | and the adjacent Country in North Wales.'
    [2] Lower right: 'William Woollett Sculpt.' | 'LE MONTAGNE DE SNOWDEN, | avec ses Environs dans la Principauté de Galles.'
    Inscribed faintly in graphite, lower right [illegible]
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Paul Mellon
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Graphite, lower left: '16399 / 9 4/20'
    Related Drawings
    D367 Study for Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Other impressions are at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (4609322, PA01143 and another unnumbered); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (2 unnumbered); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (33.A.6.149)
    Related Paintings
    P152 Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
    P152A Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Nottingham Castle Art Gallery and Museum, Nottingham
    P152B Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
    Related Works by Other Artists
    J.M.W. Turner, Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower, RA 1798, Tate, London (N00460)
    Critical commentary
    This print is one of the set, Six Views in North and South Wales, all after Wilson, published by John Boydell in 1775. By the early 19th century the print had become difficult to obtain, as witnessed in Cambria Depicta by Edward Pugh who died in 1813: 'The late Mr. Wilson, R.A. chose this scene for the subject of a picture, which by connoisseurs was esteemed one of the most excellent of his performances. The print [...] is, as I believe, now become scarce.'
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 40407
    Bibliography
    R. Gough, Anecdotes of British Topography, London 1768, p. 603; Edwards 1808, p. 88; E. Pugh, Cambria Depicta: A Tour through North Wales, 1816, p. 136; Fagan 1885, p. 39, cat. XCI, 2nd State
    More Information
    An impression belonged to William Lock of Norbury and featured in his sale, Sotheby's London 3-7 May 1821 (619).
    Condition/Conservation
    Trimmed to platemark and inlaid on card backing

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Study for Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

    Versions

    • William Woollett (1735-1785)after Wilson, Snowden Hill, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • William Woollett (1735-1785)after Wilson, Snowden Hill and the adjacent Country in North Wales, The British Museum

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Nottingham Castle Art Gallery and Museum, Nottingham
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

    Biographies

    • John Boydell (1720-1804)
    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • William Woollett (1735-1785)

    Documents

    • Edward Edwards, Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England; with critical Remarks on their Productions
    • Louis Fagan, A Catalogue Raisonné of the engraved Works of William Woollett
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