Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales
Date:
1835 or 1836
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache, watercolor, graphite and black chalk on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 x 18 1/8 inches (38.1 x 46 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Llyn Gwinedd & part of Llyn-y-ddinas | between Capel Curig & Beddgelert | N. Wales"; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: "J6213 | Samuel Palmer | Llyn Wginedd + part of Lynn-y-ddinas | between Capel Curig & Beddgelert - | N. Wales"; in graphite, verso, upper right: "62/5/22/21"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "14 5/8 x | 145 18 1/4 | 20 x 24"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Europe | United Kingdom | Cymru | Wales | Aberconwy and Colwyn | Capel Curig
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018-09-21 - 2018-12-09)Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2019-02-16 - 2019-05-12)Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
Publications:
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 104, no. 187, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 11, no. 75, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Wales, New Haven, 2014, p. 21, V2519 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This landscape illustrates the dramatic and inhospitable nature of the elevated and isolated valley in the mountains surrounding Capel Curig, a village at the foot of Mount Snowdon. Palmer expresses the power of nature, evoking both fear and aesthetic pleasure by blending the rugged sky with the mountains. This watercolor was painted early in Palmer’s career, during one of his two sketching tours of Wales in the late 1830s that mark the beginning of his fascination with mountain landscapes. Gallery label for the Art in Focus: Wales(Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)