View of Snowdon, Wales

Details

William Turner of Oxford, O.W.S. (1789-1862)
View of Snowdon, Wales
signed 'WTurner' (on a rock, lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of white and with gum arabic
19¾ x 28 3/8 (50.2 x 71.6 cm.)

Provenance

with Spink-Leger, London.

Exhibited

London, Spink-Leger, British Watercolours and Drawings, 1998, no. 58.

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Lot Essay

Turner of Oxford exhibited a number of related views of Snowdon seen across the Vale of Festiniog. There is a preparatory study in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which is smaller and has one of the mountain goats in the central foreground. Turner was touring central and North Wales in 1817 and painted the valley in a style rather reminiscent of Cotman's earlier renderings of it. A further view, taken from near Capel Curig, was exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colour in 1835, and the present watercolour probably belongs to this later period.

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