Peter De Wint
Llandaff Cathedral, South Wales

Llandaff Cathedral, South Wales

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Llandaff Cathedral, South Wales
ArtistBritish, 1784–1849
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Llandaff Cathedral, South Wales
Datec. 1848
Place depictedCardiff, Wales
MediumWatercolor over graphite heightened with scratching out and stopping out on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 13/16 × 19 9/16 in. (32.5 × 49.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Robert Cummins Stuart IV
Object number2016.4
Not on view

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Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenanceJohn Vaughn, by 1848; [Thomas Agnew, London, by 1918]; purchased by Walter A. Barrett; [Thomas Agnew, London, by 1990]; [Andrew Wyld, London, by 2005]; [Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd., by 2015-2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1848, no. 258

London, Agnew’s, Annual English Watercolour Exhibition, 1990, no. 60

London, Andrew Wyld, Peter de Wint 1784-1849, Colourist and Countryman, 2005, no. 28
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Inscribed in possibly graphite: 258
[None]
Verso: Watermark, right edge: J WHATMAN / 1829 [bottom to top]
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