- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Mynydd Mawr
- A view of Mynwydd-Mawr fall, North Wales
- A View of Llyn Gwellyn, Caernarvonshire
- Date
- ca. 1777
- Medium
- Oil
- Dimensions
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- image width 622mm,
- image length 895mm
- Inscription
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- canvas, recto
- signed and dated “1818”
- according to Christie's
- Object Type
- Oil painting
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- Versions
- Mynydd Mawr
- Catalogue Number
- FT590
- Description Sources
- Christie's records; Witt Library (image)
Provenance
Untraced apart from its appearance for sale at Christie’s on 27 June 1980, lot 96, A View of Llyn Gwellyn, Caernarvonshire.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- Christie's, London, London, 27 June 1980, lot 96
- Exhibition History
- [?] The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, 1797, no. 615 as 'A view of Mynwydd-Mawr fall, North Wales'
- Bibliography
- Timothy Wilcox, Francis Towne, Tate Publishing: London, 1997, p. 43
Other entries in Oil Paintings, 1784–1801
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Comment
This is a version of a drawing of Mynydd Mawr dated 1777 (FT091). Mynydd Mawr is a mountain on the edge of the lake, Llyn Cwellyn, on the west side of Snowdon.
Clearly the inscribed date is not 1818. It is suggested here as the 1797 exhibit on the grounds of its subject and style, which is close to a Tivoli oil painting dated 1800 (FT617).