- Description
-
- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
-
- Mynydd Mawr
- Mynydd Mawr, ditto [i.e. Caernarvonshire]
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 273mm,
- image length 432mm
- Inscription
-
- verso
- “Mynydd Maur” and “1777”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Collection
- Versions
- Mynydd Mawr
- Catalogue Number
- FT091
- Description Sources
- Agnew’s file; 1951 Exeter catalogue; Witt Library (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s great-grandson Major Anthony Hubert Gibbs (1874–1957) inherited the drawing and on 24 February 1938 sold it to Agnew’s (no.2641) for £25, where it was bought by Brodie of Brodie Castle for £39 18s. (on 23 February according to Agnew’s). It was in the possession of Violet Brodie in 1951 and since 1980 has been the property of the National Trust for Scotland at Brodie Castle.
- Associated People & Organisations
- National Trust for Scotland, 1980
- Violet Brodie, 1951
- Brodie Castle, National Trust Scotland, 23 February 1938, GBP 39 18s
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 24 February 1938, GBP 25, no.2641
- Major Anthony Hubert Gibbs (1874 - 1957), 24 February 1938
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- Exhibition History
- [?] Exhibition of Original Drawings at the Gallery, No.20 Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 20 Lower Brook Street, 1805, no. 33 as 'Mynydd Mawr, ditto [ie Caernarvonshire]'
- 65th Annual Exhibition of Water Colour and Pencil Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1938, no. 145
- Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century: Francis Hayman RA, Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, 1951, no. 33
Other entries in Tour of Wales, 1777
View of a Mountain, Perhaps near Aberddwlas
A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris
A View of the Salmon Leap from Pont Aberglaslyn
The West Front of Tintern Abbey
Chepstow Chepstow Museum and Art Gallery
The Ruins of the Great Room in Ludlow Castle, Shopshire, where Milton’s Comus was Performed
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Comment
Mynydd Mawr is a mountain on the edge of the lake of Llyn Cwellyn, on the west side of Snowdon and just north of Beddgelert. The lake is reached after passing through Pont Aberglaslyn (see Comment at FT086). Towne has depicted the stream at the head of Llyn Cwellyn at its northern end. This is one of four 1777 works showing the lake (FT091, FT092, FT093, FT094). Towne made an oil version of this view (FT590), which was probably exhibited in 1797.