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Lloyd's Pulpit, Ffestiniog, North Wales

Oil Painting
ca. 1837 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Stark, James (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Britain (painted)

Oil on panel depicting a natural rock formation in the middle of a river.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleLloyd's Pulpit, Ffestiniog, North Wales (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
Oil Paint
Panel
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting entitled 'Lloyd's Pulpit, Ffestiniog, North Wales' by James Stark. British School, ca. 1837.
Physical description
Oil on panel depicting a natural rock formation in the middle of a river.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 27.3cm
  • Estimate width: 33cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
British School
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
Landscapes (Representations)
Pulpits
Legends
Place depicted
Wales
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 279
  • Lloyd's Pulpit is a tall columnar rock, also called Pulpit Hugh Llwyd o Gynvael, or "Hugh Lloyd of Cynvael's Pulpit". It rests upon a broad base, rising from the bed of the river, detached from those rocks which form its wood-fringed sides. The Hugh Lloyd from whom it takes its name was a reputed sorcerer in the time of James I, and is said to have delivered his incantations from the summit of this isolated rocky pillar, for which dark purpose its situation in a deep umbrageous glen was well calculated.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
FA.192[O]

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Record createdApril 4, 2007
Record URL
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