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:
clouds | cattle | mountains | smoke | science | meteorology | light | landscape | marine art | storm
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Wales | Cymru | Snowdon | Tremadoc
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)

William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1805, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, MA, 2024, p. 247, fig. 13.2, PR5864 .A2 E54 2024 Oversisze (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7814