Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle (after Richard Wilson)
William Woollett (Maidstone 1735 - London 1785)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1766 - 1775
Materials
Paper
Measurements
360 x 520 mms
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 354113.24
Summary
Print, engraving on paper, Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle (after Richard Wilson) by William Woollett (Maidstone 1735 - London 1785). Lake with mountains in background, trees on either side. Foreground with two men fishing and a woman, two small rowing boats each with three figures. No inscription. Within reproduction border with applied corners, with reproduction corded bow. From a collection of 52 prints, 18th century, affixed around the walls of the Print Room. The original painting is in National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery and other versions are in Nottingham Castle Museum and Shizuoka Perfectural Museum, Ishikawa, Japan. A preparatory drawing is in the Huntington Art Library and Museum, San Marino, California. The print was published by Boydell in 1775. Pennant wrote in his Tour of Wales in 1783: "Few are sensible of this; for few visit the spot." This prospect is from the western end of Llyn Nantlle in Gwynedd, where a stream, the Afon Llfynwy flows out of the lake in the right foreground. In the far distance is the mountain of Snowdon (Wyddfa), behind the shimmering peak of Clogwyn y Gareg. On the left is Craig y Bera and to the right is Y Garn and Mynndd Drws y Coed.
Makers and roles
William Woollett (Maidstone 1735 - London 1785), engraver (printmaker) after Richard Wilson (Penegoes 1714 - Mold 1782), artist
References
Pennant, 1773: Thomas Pennant, Tours in Wales, 1773, 2:188