Snowdon from Capel Curig

Snowdon from Capel Curig is a 1787 landscape painting by the French-British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg depicting Snowdon, a mountain in North Wales.

[1] [2] It is viewed from the near the village of Capel Curig which can be seen on the right foreground of the painting.

[3] The mountain was a popular tourist destination in the eighteenth century.

It was one of three views of Snowdon that Loutherbourg displayed at the Royal Academy's 1787 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House.

Today the painting is in the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut as part of the Paul Mellon Collection.