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Hafod Ysbytty, Festiniog, Merionethshire

Mona Moore

1940

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Early Modern Landscape

Dominant colour

Hafod Ysbytty, Festiniog, Merionethshire is a 1940 watercolor by Mona Moore, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Mona Moore
When & what style?: 1940
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

This sketch shows a quiet farmhouse with a stone wall in front. The house has a dark roof and two chimneys. Leafless trees stand around it, and a hill rises in the background under a cloudy sky. The colors are soft—mostly gray, brown, and pale yellow—with quick watercolor strokes. The artist signed it in the corner, but the scene looks simple and unpolished on purpose. It feels like a quick note of a place, not a finished picture. Try looking up Moore, Mona to see more of her work.

The story of this work

Overview

A watercolour by Mona Moore from 1940, titled and signed, depicting a stone cottage in a rural setting with steep hills rising behind it. The work was created as part of the "Recording Britain" project, a wartime initiative funded by the Pilgrim Trust and administered by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime. The scheme commissioned artists to document Britain’s landscape and architecture, particularly those perceived as vulnerable to wartime damage or modernization. Moore’s painting reflects the project’s focus on preserving scenes of national identity through topographical…

Read the full account in the museum source.