Pont-y-Pair on the River Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, Denbigh
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, blue wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches (34.3 x 47.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In pen and brown ink, lower right: "John Webber. 1791;" in graphite, lower left: "Ponte Pair Lanrust | near"; on mount, lower center: "Ponte Pair in North Wales"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1966
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)John Webber, R. A. (1752-1793) (Whitworth Art Gallery, 1996-07-04 - 1996-09-15)John Webber, R. A. (1752-1793) (Kunstmuseum Bern, 1996-03-26 - 1996-05-27)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
William Hauptman, John Webber : Landschaftsmaler un Südseefaher = Pacific voyager and landscape artist, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 1996, pp. 234-5, no. 61, NJ18 .W382 H28 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 162-163, no. IV.4, pl. 136, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 12, no. 93, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition Catalogue. 1792. 24th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1792, vol. 1:2, p. 16, no. 512, N5054 .A53 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 70-71, no. 54, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)