Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831, British
Title:
The Slate Quarries at Bron Llwyd
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 x 8 1/4 inches (12.7 x 21 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower right: "3697"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.733
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
geology | men | slate | workers | rope | genre subject | slate | landscape | rocks (landforms) | quarries
Associated Places:
Europe | United Kingdom | Cymru | Wales
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
Publications:
Yale Center for British Art, Wales, New Haven, 2014, p. 20, V2519 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Despite its rural and mountainous landscapes, and the deep associations with the past that made Wales so attractive to English artists, it was an increasingly urbanized, industrial, and technologically advanced society. Smith’s unusual image of a slate quarry, its starkly jagged lines juxtaposed with the softly rolling hills in the background, recalls how important were raw materials, such as coal and slate, to industrial processes worldwide. Gallery label for the Art in Focus: Wales(Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7807