Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855, British
Title:
A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, blue chalk, graphite, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (64.8 x 92.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Copley Fielding 1834"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4640
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | mountains | light | clouds | science | marine art | cattle | smoke | meteorology | storm
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Tremadoc | Wales | Snowdon | Cymru
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

Romantic Watercolor : Exhibition Watercolors & Technique (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-10 - 2003-01-05)

The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (National Gallery of Art, 1993-05-02 - 1993-07-25)

The Great Age of British Watercolors c.1750 - 1880 (Royal Academy of Arts, 1993-01-15 - 1993-07-25)

Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)

Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 30-31, fig. 24, ND467 C67 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 9, no. 66, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7814