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

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Artist John VarleyBritish, 1778–1842

CultureBritish

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Mount Snowden from the Slopes of Moel Hebog, Beddgelert below

Date1812

Place depictedBeddgelert, Wales

Place depictedSnowdonia

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

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance[Spinks, London, by 1980s]; private collection, United Kingdom; [Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, Ltd., by 2015-2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Society of Painters in Water-colours (1813), no.130
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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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