A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris
Medium
watercolor with scratch-away, heightened with white
Dimensions
sheet: 48.9 × 70.3 cm · secondary support: 49.5 × 70.8 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
2010.147
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About this artwork
As a young man, William Turner removed himself from the competitive London art world and returned to his native Oxford to teach and paint in solitude. This retreat may have been because he shared the same name as his contemporary Joseph Mallord William Turner, or it may have been prompted by his apparently retiring personality. He painted prolifically and traveled widely in Britain in search of subjects. This watercolor describes the dramatic mountain scenery of north Wales. The close-up view of...