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    Dinas Bran and Llangollen
    Dinas Bran and Llangollen
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Dinas Bran and Llangollen
    Date
    c.1770 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk and stump over graphite on white laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 315 x 427 mm
    Imperial: 12 3/8 x 16 3/4 in.
    Collection
    National Museum Wales, Cardiff. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    NMW A 5766
    Wilson Online Reference
    D374A
    Provenance
    Paul Sandby; Dr John Percy F.R.S. (1817-1889), Gloucester Crescent, Bayswater, London; his sale, Christie's 15-17 & 22-23 April 1890 (1399 - View near Llangollen, bt Hewett, 6s.0d.); [...] purchased from F.R. Meatyard 1950
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    Graphite underdrawing, e.g. of the tree structure at the right
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower left corner: Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
    [2] Lower left corner: Dr J. Percy (Lugt 1504)
    Related Drawings
    D374 Castell Dinas Bran, Wales, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    Related Paintings
    P165 Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    P165A Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I (Lake Scene with Mountains), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
    P165B Ascribed to Wilson, Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen (Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I), Ferens Art Gallery: Hull Museums
    P167 Wilson and later intervention, Dinas Bran Castle, near Llangollen - II, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    P167A Wilson and later intervention, Castell Dinas Bran from Llangollen, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
    Critical commentary
    A beautiful worked-up drawing for the painting P165 at the Yale Center for British Art. Sir Brinsley Ford, however, believed this to be possibly by Sandby after Wilson.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    50.429
    Bibliography
    Pennant 1784, vol. 1, pp. 297-98; WGC, p. 176, pl. 36c
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/41
    Updated by Compiler
    2022-10-20 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Castell Dinas Bran, Wales, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Castell Dinas Bran, Wales, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven

    Paintings

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I (Lake Scene with Mountains), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
    • Ascribed to Wilson, Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen (Dinas Bran from Llangollen - I), Ferens Art Gallery: Hull Museums
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and later intervention, Dinas Bran Castle, near Llangollen - II, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) and later intervention, Castell Dinas Bran from Llangollen, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

    Biographies

    • Frederick Meatyard (died c.1964)
    • Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)
    • Dr John Percy (1817-1889)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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