Mountain Heights, Cader Idris

c. 1850

David Cox

Artist, British, 1783 - 1859

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over chalk on oatmeal paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 47.7 x 74.6 cm (18 3/4 x 29 3/8 in.)
    overall (mat size): 59.7 x 85.7 cm (23 1/2 x 33 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.8.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

P. J. Worsley, Esq., Clifton. (Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York). The Armand Hammer Foundation, Los Angeles; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1993

  • The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993.

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2008

  • Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery (England), 2008-2009, no. 108.

Bibliography

1987

  • Wordsworth, J., Wordsworth and the Age of Romanticism, Rutgers University Press: c.1987, no. 277.

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in graphite: 76

Wikidata ID

Q64540789

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