Harlech Castle looking north to Snowdon, North Wales, with an artist sketching beneath a parasol, labourers below

細節

David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Harlech Castle looking north to Snowdon, North Wales, with an artist sketching beneath a parasol, labourers below
signed 'David Cox' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper
7 3/8 x 11¾ in. (18.3 x 29.9 cm.)

來源

John Mitchell, by 1860.
Charles T. Jacoby, by 1890.
with Spink, London.

展覽

Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Special Collection of Works by David Cox, 1890, no. 40.

刻印

William Radclyff for Thomas Roscoe's Wanderings in North Wales, 1836, p. 213, as 'Snowdon from Harlech'.

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Thomas Roscoe recorded at Harlech that the 'walls are lofty, towering above the marsh and sea, and from the summit is beheld a splendid prospect...the range of Snowdon hills, soaring far above the other mountains, now bright, now half surrounded in the veils of clouds' (cited in Spink, exhibition catalogue, London, 1997, no. 26).

Rather than focusing on the castle itself, Cox has chosen to depict the broad marsh of Morfa Harlech that stretches out below into the distance before the towering heights of Snowdon. He also pays tribute to the inspiration which artists drew from the site, by showing the tiny figure of a painter sketching away beneath a parasol.