Snowdon from Capel Curig

Snowdon from Capel Curig is a 1787 landscape painting by the French-British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg depicting Snowdon, a mountain in North Wales.^{[1] [2]} It is viewed from the near the village of Capel Curig which can be seen on the right foreground of the painting.^[3]

Snowdon from Capel Curig
Artist	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year	1787
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	134.3 cm × 200.7 cm (52.9 in × 79.0 in)
Location	Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

The mountain was a popular tourist destination in the eighteenth century. It was one of three views of Snowdon that Loutherbourg displayed at the Royal Academy's 1787 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House. Today the painting is in the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut as part of the Paul Mellon Collection.^[4]

References

1. Freeman p.99-100
2. Fairest Isle: The Appreciation of British Scenery, 1750-1850, Yale Center for British Art, 1989. p.11
3. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:403
4. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:403

Bibliography

• Freeman, Michael. Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World. Yale University Press, 2004.
• Preston, Lillian Elvira. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg: Eighteenth Century Romantic Artist and Scene Designer. University of Florida, 1977.