Mountainous landscape, North Wales
Mountainous landscape, North Wales
Mountainous landscape, North Wales
Mountainous landscape, North Wales
Mountainous landscape, North Wales
Mountainous landscape, North Wales

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Mountainous landscape, North Wales,

late 1840s–early 1850s

David Cox, 1783–1859; born Birmingham, England; died Harborne, England; active London, England
2017-217
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Last Look | Watercolors by John White Abbott and David Cox

Landscapes Behind Cézanne

Information

Title
Mountainous landscape, North Wales
Dates

late 1840s–early 1850s

Maker
David Cox
Medium
Watercolor and black chalk
Dimensions
21.6 × 64.6 cm (8 1/2 × 25 7/16 in.) frame: 40 × 78.7 × 2.2 cm (15 3/4 × 31 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Surdna Fund
Object Number
2017-217
Place Made

Europe, Wales, Bettws-y-Coed

Culture
English
Type
drawings, watercolors
Materials
watercolor, wove paper, black chalk
Subject
trees, landscapes (representations), wind, mountains

By descent from the artist until sold at Sotheby’s, London, June 30, 2005, lot 252; private collection. [Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd, London, by 2017]; purchased by Princeton University Art Museum, 2017.

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