Art, literature & history
Mountain Heights, Cader Idris
c. 1850
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor over chalk on oatmeal paper; laid down
- Dimensions
- Overall: 47.7 x 74.6 cm (18 3/4 x 29 3/8 in.) overall (mat size): 59.7 x 85.7 cm (23 1/2 x 33 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1989.8.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
David Cox. Mountain Heights, Cader Idris. David Cox; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Armand Hammer Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Mountain Heights, Cader Idris — David Cox. c. 1850.
Medium: watercolor over chalk on oatmeal paper; laid down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): Overall: 47.7 x 74.6 cm (18 3/4 x 29 3/8 in.) overall (mat size): 59.7 x 85.7 cm (23 1/2 x 33 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1989.8.1. The Armand Hammer Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.