John Varley
Mount Snowden from the Slopes of Moel Hebog, Beddgelert below

ArtistBritish, 1778–1842
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Mount Snowden from the Slopes of Moel Hebog, Beddgelert below
Date1812
Place depictedSnowdonia
Place depictedBeddgelert, Wales
MediumWatercolor over graphite heightened with stopping out on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 15 × 20 1/4 in. (38.1 × 51.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of James G. Ulmer
Object number2016.3
Non exposé

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Special Collections
Provenance[Spink & Son, Ltd, London, as of 1980s]; private collection, UK; [Guy Peppiatt, Ltd., London, 2015–2016]; purchased by the MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryThe Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Oil and Water Colours at the Great Room, Spring Gardens, The Ninth, J. Booth, London, 1813, cat. 130.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and dated in brown watercolor, left bottom edge: J. Varley, 1812.
Recto: Signed and dated in brown watercolor, lower left edge: J. Varley, 1812.
Printed and typed labels removed from verso backboard, stored in accession file:

SPINK / FOUNDED 1666 (flanked by two emblems with text below) 1)BY APPOINTMENT / TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN / MEDALLISTS and 2) BY APPOINTMENT / TO HRH THE DUKE OF EDINGURGH / MEDALLISTS / KING STREET, ST. JAMES'S, / LONDON. S.W.1 / No. K3 7807

JOHN VARLEY, G.W.S., 1778 - 1842 / Snowdon // Pencil and watercolour heightened with scraping out // 15 1/8 x 20 3/4 inches // Signed and dated 1812 // Varley exhibited "A view of Snowdon, from / Moel Heydog" at the Old Watercolour Society, 1813, no. 130


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