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Cader Idris from the Mawddach River

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Date

June 1813

Artist

John Varley, I (1778-1842)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil heightened with stopping out.
This depicts one of Varley’s favourite Welsh views. A view of Cader Idris taken from the Mawddach river looking south with the bridge at Llanelltyd in the middle distance. He first visited the area on his first Welsh tour in 1798 or 1799 and returned on a number of occasions.

The present watercolour is unusual is being an on-the-spot sketch with Varley noting it was drawn at 10.15am on 4th June 1813. Most of his watercolours are studio productions. It may be the picture exhibited at the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1813, no. 126 as `View of Cader Idris, North Wales.’ Other versions of this view were with John Spink in 2008 (see Timothy Wilcox, John Varley 1778-1842, 2008, no.8) and in the collection at Eton College dated 1808.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Cadair Idris (Penygader), Gwynedd, Wales

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