id:			154962
accession number:	1989.52
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.52
updated:		2025-02-09 04:38:50.374000

Cader Idris, with the Mawddach River, c. 1774. Richard Wilson (British, 1714–1782). Oil on canvas; framed: 105.5 x 120.5 x 7 cm (41 9/16 x 47 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 89.8 x 105.5 cm (35 3/8 x 41 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1989.52

title:				Cader Idris, with the Mawddach River
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creation date:			c. 1774
creation date earliest:		1769
creation date latest:		1779
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - British before 1800
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Richard Wilson (British, 1714–1782)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 105.5 x 120.5 x 7 cm (41 9/16 x 47 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 89.8 x 105.5 cm (35 3/8 x 41 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Notable Acquisitions
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

	title:		CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation)
	opening date:   2006-04-03T00:00:00
	<i>CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation)</i>. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 3-June 5, 2006).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, June 7-September 15, 1991: "Notable Acquisitions", CMA Bulletin, 78 (June, 1991), p. 78, repr, color.', 'opening_date': '1991-06-07T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Denver, CO, The Denver Art Museum, December 11, 1993-February 6, 1994: "Gently, Rural, and Subline: English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850," cat. #', 'opening_date': '1993-12-11T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (4/3/2006 - 6/5/2006): "CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation)"', 'opening_date': '2006-04-03T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Michael Grazebrook (sale: Christie's, London, 21 June, 1890, no. 131)
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	F. Worsely-Taylor (1892, by descent to Miss Dorothea Worsley-Taylor, Christie's, London sale 15 March, 1978, no. 113)
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	Leggatts for Private Collection
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	(Agnews, London)
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	Michael Grazebrook (sale: Christie's, London, 21 June, 1890, no. 131);  F. Worsely-Taylor (1892, by descent to Miss Dorothea Worsley-Taylor, Christie's, London sale 15 March, 1978, no. 113); (Leggatts for Private Collection);  (Agnews, London).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Robertson, Bruce. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 78
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319

	Baetjer, Katharine, and Michael Rosenthal. <em>Glorious Nature: British Landscape Painting, 1750-1850</em>. New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1993.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 100; Reproduced: p. 101
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	Chong, Alan. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 260
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	Wiles, Stephanie, "British Invasion", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 46 no. 04, April 2006
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-04/page/8

	Kidson, Alex. <em>Earlier British Paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House</em>. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 271, fig. 112
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