A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris
William Turner (British, 1789–1862) · c. 1850 · watercolor with scratch-away, heightened with white
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A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris is a CC0 drawing by William Turner (British, 1789–1862), dated c. 1850. Watercolor with scratch-away, heightened with white. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“A View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris” (c. 1850) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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