Name: JAMES WARD, R.A. (DERBYSHIRE 1769-1859 HULL)
Brand: Waterfall, Cader Idris
Price: 600.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

JAMES WARD, R.A. (DERBYSHIRE 1769-1859 HULL)
Waterfall, Cader Idris
signed with initials 'JWD. RA' and inscribed with the artist's shorthand (lower left) and further inscirbed 'Cader Idris' (lower right)
pencil and black chalk on paper watermarked 'JWHATMAN 1801'
14⁷⁄₈ x 10⁵⁄₈ in. (37.8 x 27 cm.)

Peter Cochrane.

London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours and Drawings 1730-1870, cat. 89, 10-25 May 2012, no. 79.

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This drawing may date from Ward’s 1802 visit to Wales or his later tour of 1807 when the Cader Idris guide Robert Edwards took Ward to visit Mary Thomas, the starving woman of Tanyralt (Ward had also visited her in 1802). After the visit Ward and his young travelling companion Robert Garle were taken up the mountain by their guide to find Mary Thomas’s brother so that Ward could question him. Ward was fascinated by this woman and privately published the results of his visits as Some account of Mary Thomas, Tanyralt, Merionethshire, who has existed many years without taking food; and of Ann Moore, commonly called The Fasting Woman of Tutbury, 1813.