Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011157A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris
About the Artwork
As a young man, William Turner removed himself from the competitive London art world and returned to his native Oxford to teach and paint in solitude. This retreat may have been because he shared the same name as his contemporary Joseph Mallord William Turner, or it may have been prompted by his apparently retiring personality. He painted prolifically and traveled widely in Britain in search of subjects. This watercolor describes the dramatic mountain scenery of north Wales. The close-up view of the hillside and sheep in the left foreground juxtaposed with the sweeping vista of the mountains of Snowdonia invites a comparison of the minute with the infinite.
Provenance
?-2003: Private collection, England 2003-2004: (Lowell Libson, London) 2009-2010: (Lowell Libson, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2010-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Turner (British, 1789–1862)
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- watercolor with scratch-away, heightened with white
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 48.9 x 70.3 cm (19 1/4 x 27 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 49.5 x 70.8 cm (19 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 2010.147
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