View from near the top of Snowdon looking towards the Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bach Sands, North Wales
View from near the top of Snowdon looking towards the Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bach Sands, North Wales
View from near the top of Snowdon looking towards the Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bach Sands, North WalesInscribed on part of old mount: July 26th 1795./View near the Peak of Snowdon, looking to the Traeth Mawr, & Traeth Bach Sands./Great Inlets from the Bay of Cardigan, & subject to its Tides -Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour13.9 by 22.6 cm., 5 ½ by 8 ¾ in.During Smith's 1795 tour of North Wales, we can fairly accurately work out Smith's route through the detailed and dated inscriptions he made on the original mounts, such as with the present watercolour. On the 14th June, Smith was at Devils Bridge, by the 1st July he was at Raglan, then Carmarthen (9th), St Bride's Bay, St David's Head (10th), Bardsey Island (23rd), top of Snowdon (26th) Beddgelert (27th).){kind=link}
John `Warwick' Smith (1749-1831)
View from near the top of Snowdon looking towards the Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bach Sands, North Wales
Inscribed on part of old mount: July 26th 1795./View near the Peak of Snowdon, looking to the Traeth Mawr, & Traeth Bach Sands./Great Inlets from the Bay of Cardigan, & subject to its Tides -
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour
13.9 by 22.6 cm., 5 ½ by 8 ¾ in.
During Smith's 1795 tour of North Wales, we can fairly accurately work out Smith's route through the detailed and dated inscriptions he made on the original mounts, such as with the present watercolour. On the 14th June, Smith was at Devils Bridge, by the 1st July he was at Raglan, then Carmarthen (9th), St Bride's Bay, St David's Head (10th), Bardsey Island (23rd), top of Snowdon (26th) Beddgelert (27th).