drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.108
- Description
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Penrhyn Quarry, Winter Evening; view of quarry employing heavy black line. 1980
Gouache, ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1980
- Dimensions
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Height: 530 millimetres
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Width: 700 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Label on back of original frame for Mostyn Art Gallery, North Wales. According to a letter from the artist to Felicity Kerr dated 21 January 2004, David Brown paid for this work in three monthly instalments and became close friends with the artist and his family. Brown also arranged the purchase of "Bethesda Quarry", 1980-81 for the Contemporary Art Society, now in the Tate Collection. According to this letter and a letter from the artist to the curator of Southampton Art Gallery, this painting is a study for "Bethesda Quarry", 1980-81. The letters are held in the artist's file.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1982, Mostyn Art Gallery, North Wales, P P: The Road to Bethesda, no 80
1993, The National Museum of Wales P P: Paintings from Wales, no.13
2006 Jan-Feb, Anglesey, Oriel Ynys Mon, "Peter Prendergast"
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.108