Distant View of Cumberland Mountains from Skiddaw
Distant View of Cumberland Mountains from Skiddaw
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, O.W.S. (1787-1855)
`Distant View of the Cumberland Mountains, Skiddaw & C. from near Carlisle'
Signed lower centre: Copley Fielding/1853 and inscribed with title verso
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and stopping out
30.2 by 42.7 cm., 11 ¾ by 16 ¾ in.
Provenance:
Bought from Michael Bryan, January 1986;
Private Collection, UK, until 2013
Exhibited:
London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1853, no. 269
This is a view looking south from Carlisle in Cumbria towards the hills of the Lake District.