Watercolor, gouache and scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/4 x 29 15/16 inches (46.4 x 76 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2048
Gallery Label:
The great mountains of North Wales had attracted landscape painters since the mid-eighteenth century and continued to appeal in the next century despite the growing popularity of the Scottish Highlands. George Fennel Robson's view of the Welsh peak of Tryfan is an exemplary exhibition watercolor. The growing demand for large-scale watercolors that could hang on a wall in gilded frames like oil paintings put grandeur of effect at a premium and helps explain Robson's phenomenal popularity. As one critic put it, "the breadth and massiveness of his style are peculiarly adapted to the representation of the more grand and imposing effects of nature." Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
