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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

CADER IDRIS PEINT PAR DANIEL HAVELL

 

DANIEL HAVELL (1785-1822), Cader Idris (893m) Royaume Uni (Pays de Galles)  In Pen y Cader, 1818, National Library of Wales

DANIEL HAVELL (1785-1822),
Cader Idris (893m)
Royaume Uni (Pays de Galles)

In Pen y Cader, 1818, National Library of Wales


La montagne
Cader Idris ou Pen y Cader (893m) est une montagne située dans la région de Meirionnydd, dans le Gwynedd, au Pays de Galles. Elle se trouve à l'extrémité sud du parc national de Snowdonia, près de la ville de Dolgellau. Ce sommet, l'un des plus populaires du Pays de Galles auprès des randonneurs, est composé en grande partie de roches ignées ordoviciennes, présentant des caractéristiques classiques de l'érosion glaciaire telles que des cirques, des moraines, des roches striées et des roches moutonnées.
Cadair Idris signifie « la chaise d'Idris ». Idris est généralement considéré comme le nom d'un géant ou, alternativement, il peut faire référence à Idris ap Gwyddno (ou Gweiddno), un prince de Meirionnydd qui vécut au 7e siècle et remporta une bataille contre les Irlandais sur cette montagne même. Idris ap Gwyddno était en fait appelé Idris Gawr (« Idris le Géant ») dans certaines généalogies médiévales de Meirionydd.

L'artiste
Dans ans l'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography actuel, Daniel Havell est situé comme né en 1785, fils du frère de Luke, Thomas, également peintre, né en 1762. Daniel s'installa à Londres et s'associa à Robert Havell comme graveur à l'aquatinte. Ensemble, ils publièrent les aquatintes « Vingt-quatre vues prises à Sainte-Hélène » (1809-1810), d'après des tableaux de Henry Salt, et « Douze vues pittoresques de la Tamise » (1812), d'après des aquarelles de William Havell. Mais cette collaboration ne dura pas et Daniel travailla bientôt seul, réalisant notamment des planches pour l'Histoire de Cambridge (1815) de Rudolph Ackermann et l'histoire de diverses écoles publiques, dont Eton, Winchester et Rugby (1816), ainsi qu'une célèbre vue de la cathédrale Saint-Paul (1818) et divers autres monuments londoniens pour le Repository of Arts d'Ackermann. Parmi ses autres sujets figuraient des vues topographiques du Devon et du nord du Pays de Galles, ainsi que des vues d'engagements navals. La dernière œuvre de Havell fut pour E.W. Brayley's Historical and description accounts of the theatres of London (1826), « illustrée d'une vue de chaque théâtre, élégamment coloriée, dessinée et gravée par feu Daniel Havell ». 

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Saturday, June 9, 2018

AMBA ALAGI BY DANIEL HAVELL



DANIEL HAVELL  (1785-1822)
Amba Alagi  (3,438 m -11,280 ft )
Ethiopia 

 In The Vale of Calaat , Ethiopia,  engraving 1800, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

The mountain Amba Alagi is the one situated on extreme right of the engraving 

The mountain
Amba Alagi  (3,438 m -11,280 ft )is a mountain, or an Amba, in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi Zone of the Tigray Region, Amba Alagi dominates the roadway that runs past it from the city of Mek'ele south to Maychew. Because of its strategic location, Amba Alagi has been the location of several battles. As Anthony Mockler describes it,
It was [a] real amba, flat-topped, covered with crevices and canyons and caves, impregnable on the north and north-east where the Tug Gabat ran round its flanks through precipitous ravines, falling steeply away in the rear to the spur of Antalo, behind which lay the broad plain of Mahera.
Amba Alagi  (3,438 m -11,280 ft)is a mountain, or an amba, in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi Zone of the Tigray Region, Amba Alagi dominates the roadway that runs past it from the city of Mek'ele south to Maychew. Because of its strategic location, Amba Alagi has been the location of several battles. As Anthony Mockler describes it,
It was [a] real amba, flat-topped, covered with crevices and canyons and caves, impregnable on the north and north-east where the Tug Gabat ran round its flanks through precipitous ravines, falling steeply away in the rear to the spur of Antalo, behind which lay the broad plain of Mahera.

The artist
In older texts (and in the current Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), Daniel Havell is often claimed as the father of Robert (and sometimes of Luke as well); but more recent references generally place him as born in 1785, the son of Luke's brother Thomas, also a painter, who was born in 1762.  Daniel moved to London, and set up in partnership as an aquatint engraver with Robert Havell. Together they published aquatints of Twenty Four Views Taken in St. Helena (1809–10) after pictures by Henry Salt, and Twelve Picturesque Views of the River Thames (1812) from watercolours by William Havell. But the partnership did not last, and soon Daniel was working independently, including plates for Rudolph Ackermann's History of Cambridge (1815) and Ackermann's history of various Public Schools including Eton, Winchester and Rugby (1816), as well as a celebrated view of St Paul's Cathedral (1818) and various other London landmarks for Ackermann's Repository of Arts. Other subjects included topographical views of Devon, and of North Wales; and views of naval engagements. Havell's final work was for E.W. Brayley's Historical and descriptive accounts of the theatres of London (1826) "illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved by the late Daniel Havell."
The Daniel Havell who was the son of Thomas Havell was baptised on 30 November 1786 at St Mary's, Reading; married Maria Wilmot on 5 June 1813 at St James's in Paddington; and was buried on 19 May 1822 at Kingston upon Thames, his occupation given as "artist".