The Summit of Cader-Idris Mountain (after Richard Wilson)
Edward Rooker (London c.1712 - London 1774) and Michael Angelo Rooker (London 1747-1801)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
17 Jul 1775 - 1991
Materials
Coloured engraving ion paper
Measurements
660 x 755 mm
Place of origin
Cheapside
Order this imageCollection
A La Ronde, Devon
NT 1312131
Summary
Print, coloured engraving, The Summit of Cader Idris Mountain (after Richard Wilson) by Edward Rooker (London c.1712 - London 1774) and Michael Angelo Rooker (London 1747-1801). Published July 17th 1775 by John Boydell, Cheapside, London. Framed. Acquired by Simon, son of Mrs Tudor Perkins in the 1980s, acquired with house in 1991. The orginal painting is in Tate Britain, London. Wilson was the first artist to paint this view in Merionethshire, some seven miles from his birthplace and childhood home, Pengoes. It is taken from the slopes of Mynydd Moel about a mile from the volcanic lake of Llyn Cau near the summitt of Cader Idris. The valley of the Dysynni runs to the left below the cliffs of Craig Goch. Beyond the Bay of Cardigan is visible. The precipice of Craig Cau is heightened. A male figure with a telescope is in the left middle ground. He resonates Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757).
Makers and roles
Edward Rooker (London c.1712 - London 1774) and Michael Angelo Rooker (London 1747-1801), engraver (printmaker) after Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782), artist John Boydell I (Dorrington 1719 – Cheapside, London 1804), engraver and publisher