FDA-D.467-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.467-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Bridge at the Head of Nant Francon Valley near Bethesda
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Sandby first visited Wales in 1770 as the guest of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, and the following year he visited North Wales, also with Sir Watkin. He was struck by the wild and romantic Welsh scenery which reminded him of what he had seen in the Highlands which he had visited in the 1740s.
Here Sandby heightens the sense of romance by his placing a wooing couple on a rock at the base of the waterfall.
Here Sandby heightens the sense of romance by his placing a wooing couple on a rock at the base of the waterfall.
Description
Content (note)
Mountain scene with waterfall and wooing couple in foreground
Dimensions
height (actual size): 380mm
width (actual size): 480mm
height (frame): 578mm
width (frame): 692mm
depth (frame): 44mm
width (actual size): 480mm
height (frame): 578mm
width (frame): 692mm
depth (frame): 44mm
Materials & techniques note
Bodycolour over graphite on paper
Physical description
Carved gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Sandby, Paul, c.1731 - 1809 (Artist)
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Alan Pilkington; by whom bequeathed to Eton College, 1973
Exhibited: 'Views of Windsor and Eton by Paul Sandby', Eton College, c.2008-09
Exhibited: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Treasures of Eton College Library, 1990, no.235; 'Views of Windsor and Eton by Paul Sandby', Eton College, c.2008-09
Exhibited: 'Views of Windsor and Eton by Paul Sandby', Eton College, c.2008-09
Exhibited: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Treasures of Eton College Library, 1990, no.235; 'Views of Windsor and Eton by Paul Sandby', Eton College, c.2008-09
